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And this is the oldest opened wine: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmona_wine_urn

My first thought was: what does it taste like? But:

> The vessel contained five liters of wine mixed with the cremains of the deceased and a gold ring at the bottom.

Interesting that someone wished to spend the afterlife in wine.

Who says they wished it?

As it's the first time I read about mixing wine with cremated remains I thought it was not a widespread funerary practice. So it looked to me like a request the person may have made before dying. But yeah, just a guess.

Then again, plenty of people pickle themselves while alive

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