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King Tuts favourite tipple was white wine! PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 22 February 2006
London: Egyptian boy Pharaoh Tutankhamen liked his wine white, if a new study is anything to go by.

Studies of the residue of the six jars in Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of Kings revealed the existence of white wine. This suggests that the boy Pharaoh had a liking for the white spirit as Egyptians, believing in afterlife always placed food and drinks most cherished by the person in his life in the deceased's tomb.

More intriguing, researchers say, is the fact that there is no record of white wine in Egypt until the 3rd Century AD, nearly 1600 years after Tutankhamen's death.

Rosa Lamuela-Raventss and her colleagues from the University of Barcelona, Spain, who conduced the study, using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry to analyse the residue from the jars in Tutankhamen's tomb, found residue of tartaric acid, found in grapes in five of the jars.

Only one of the jars contained syringic acid, found in the skin of red grapes, which gives red wine its colour, reports NewScientist. The absence of this chemical in the other five jars, researchers said amply proved that the wine the five jars contained was white.

The question they say is that white grapes must have existed in Egypt during Tutankhamen's time as it was unlikely that Egyptian wine makers would have removed red grape skins to create white wines like modern wine makers.

White wine, they said, must have been on the menu too for afterlife, like red wine.

“It must have been considered a very good drink,” the Journal of Archaeological Science quoted Lamuela-Raventss as saying.

http://www.newkerala.com/news2.php?action=fullnews&id=11829
 
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