Beaujolais Age

[OldSB]

We just found a bottle of Beaujolais in a friend's basement. (He recently bought the house from an elderly aunt.)

It is a Piat Beaujolais Superieur. Appellation Beaujolais Superieur Controlee. Negociants A Macon (S&L) France. Alcohol 12.5%. The vintage is 1959.

After 40+ years, is there any chance that it is any good, or is it way past it's time to go down the drain?

Any comments would be appreciated...

[barnesy]

Its been dead for about 35 years or so. The longest I have heard on a beaujolais aging is about 10 years and that is on a quality Moulin-a-Vent.

I would take a sniff of it before dumping it. By some chance of fate, it could be alive. Its possible, just super-highly, exorbitantly unprobable.

Barnesy