{"id":18570,"date":"2026-07-18T16:48:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18570"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:48:43","slug":"chateau-dyquem-restores-130-year-old-wine-found-in-czech-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=18570","title":{"rendered":"Ch\u00e2teau d’Yquem restores 130-year-old wine found in Czech Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Officials recently unveiled a collection of 130-year-old wine that was covertly hidden beneath a chapel floor in a medieval castle.<\/p>\n

The wine cache was found at Be\u010dov Castle in the western Czech Republic, a nearly-700-year-old medieval fortress dating to the early 14th century.<\/p>\n

After careful restoration by the prestigious French winery \u200cCh\u00e2teau d’Yquem, the bottles were put on display at the castle earlier in June.<\/p>\n

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The collection consists of 133 bottles dating from 1892 to 1899, Reuters reported, and the alcohol was likely hidden there at the end of World War II.<\/p>\n

Be\u010dov Castle, near the German border, was confiscated by then-Czechoslovakia after World War II because its owners, the Beaufort-Spontin family, were labeled Nazi sympathizers.<\/p>\n

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A collection of 133 bottles of wine dating from 1892 to 1899 is now on display at Be\u010dov Castle after careful restoration by Ch\u00e2teau d’Yquem.<\/span> (Eva Korinkov\/Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Toni El Khawand, Ch\u00e2teau d’Yquem’s cellar master, told Reuters that the wine benefited “from very good conditions of conservation.”<\/p>\n

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The wine was stored in an old underground chapel with thick walls that was “very humid and very cold” \u2014 conditions that El Khawand said were ideal for preserving it.<\/p>\n

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“Those were excellent conditions to store a wine.”<\/p>\n

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“It preserved the moisture and temperature in a very constant \u200bway,” he said. “Those were excellent conditions to store a wine.”<\/p>\n

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The restoration was so careful that preservationists even kept the dust that had accumulated on the bottles, El Khawand said.<\/p>\n

Though the display is new, officials have known about the wine for quite some time.<\/p>\n

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Officials recently unveiled a cache of 130-year-old wine that had been hidden beneath a chapel floor at Be\u010dov Castle for decades.<\/span> (Eva Korinkov\/Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The bottles were discovered in 1985 after an American businessman hired by the Beaufort-Spontin family sought permission to recover a hidden object, prompting authorities to uncover the cache.<\/p>\n

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In 2016, experts tested the wine’s quality by extracting a sample with a Coravin device, which uses a needle to pierce the cork without damaging it.<\/p>\n

Discoveries involving centuries-old food and drink are rare but not unheard of.<\/p>\n

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Restoration experts credited the underground chapel’s cool, humid conditions with helping preserve the historic wine collection for generations.<\/span> (Eva Korinkov\/Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Earlier in 2026, experts in Utah used a Coravin device to extract a sample from a 150-year-old bottle of alcohol unearthed at a former mining town.<\/p>\n

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After additional research, experts concluded the Utah bottle most likely contained apple cider rather than beer.<\/p>\n

Reuters contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n

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