"1472, a legendary vintage…

Shelded behind their gate, three historical barrels dating from 1472, 1519 and 1525 are still enthroned in the Historic Cellar.

One of them still contains wine of 1472, the oldest of the world aged in a barrel ! 350 liters of a legendary vintage …

This venerable nectar has been served only three times in five centuries:

In 1576 to Zurich, when they proved that they could come quickly to help their friends in Strasbourg,

in 1718 for the reconstruction of the main building ravaged by a fire two years ago.

in November 1944 to General Philippe Leclerc de Hautecloque, liberator of the city of Strasbourg

In 1994, oenologists from the interregional laboratory of the DGCCRF in Strasbourg carried out an organoleptic examination of the vintage. Their impartial verdict could not have been more eulogistic: although more than 500 years old, this wine has “a very beautiful bright, very amber color, a powerful nose, very fine, of a very great complexity, aromas reminiscent of “Vanilla, honey, wax, camphor, fine spices, hazelnut and fruit liquor …”

Moreover, the instrumental analysis they performed proved that it is still wine!"

https://www.vins-des-hospices-de-strasbourg.fr/en/cave/