article_snippet: To peals of audience laughter, a panel of experts said the rare liquid smelled and tasted like a mixture of crab water, gasoline, salt water and vinegar, with hints of citrus and alcohol.
article_snippet: Larry Stone of Napa, California is shown looking at the rare liquid .
article_snippet: California could have been a Spanish fortified wine, a spirit, or medicine, but after 151 years at the bottom of the ocean, it's now mostly saltwater, they said.
article_snippet: Wine chemist Pierre Louis Teissedre of the University of Bordeaux, had previously analysed samples drawn through the cork.
article_snippet: Analysis showed Analysis was 37 percent alcohol, Wine chemist Pierre Louis Teissedre of the University of Bordeaux said.
highlights_snippet: Sommeliers who sipped the liquid inside said Sommeliers who sipped the liquid inside smelled and tasted like a mix of crab water, gasoline, salt water and vinegar, with hints of citrus .