article_snippet: It may not look as appetising as a crisp Chardonnay or a rich bottle of Malbec, but grey wine recovered from a shipwreck is definitely more unusual.
article_snippet: Bottle of grey liquid was recovered from a US Civil War shipwreck.
article_snippet: Now, a panel of experts have sipped grey wine recovered from a shipwreck and say grey wine recovered from a shipwreck had a heady sulphur bouquet with distinct notes of crab water and gasoline.
article_snippet: Grey wine recorded from the wreck of a Civil War blockade runner that sank in 1864 waqs sampled by sommeliers, who said it tasted like a mixture of crab water, gasoline, salt water and vinegar, with hints of citrus and alcohol .
article_snippet: Bottle of grey liquid was pulled from the wreck of a Civil War blockade runner that sank off the coast of Bermuda in 1864.
article_snippet: Bottle of grey liquid was uncorked at a food festival in Charleston, South Carolina, in front of an audience of 50 who watched a panel of experts decant and taste the rare liquid.
article_snippet: But sadly grey wine recovered from a shipwreck was not.
article_snippet: grey wine recovered from a shipwreck was one of five sealed bottles recovered by marine archaeologists (pictured) from the Mary-Celestia, an iron-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank under mysterious circumstances during the US Civil War .
article_snippet: Sommeliers were not impressed with the taste of the grey ship wreck wine.
article_snippet: Wine chemist Pierre Louis Teissedre of the University of Bordeaux said the ‘nose’ of grey wine recovered from a shipwreck was a room-clearing mix of camphor – which is used in vapour rubs to treat colds - stagnant water, hydrocarbons, turpentine and sulphur.
article_snippet: grey wine recovered from a shipwreck was one of five sealed bottles recovered by marine archaeologists from the Mary-Celestia, an iron-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank under mysterious circumstances during the US Civil War.
article_snippet: The bottle containing the grey 'wine' is shown .
highlights_snippet: Bottle of grey liquid was recovered from a US Civil War shipwreck .
  
highlights_snippet: Wine bottle was uncorked at a food festival in Charleston, South Carolina .
  