Feb. 4 (UPI) -- An archaeological team in Utah exhumed a bottle of alcohol estimated to be 150 years ago -- and experts gave it a taste test.
Ian Wright, Utah's state public archaeologist, said the bottle was among thousands of artifacts dating back to approximately 1870-1890 found on U.S. Forest Service land used by Alta ski resort.
"When they picked it up, it was still full. It still had a cork in it," Wright told The Park Record. "We realized, 'Oh my gosh, this is a real treasure.'"
Wright said the find is the only known intact bottle of alcohol to be found from the time period.
"They sometimes find them in Missouri and in places where the Mississippi has shifted and there's been a sunken boat or a ship, but never in Utah," he said. "We rarely find a bottle with a cork at all. Or if we do find one, the corks shriveled up and shrunk it inside of it, or just fragments of it. So that's pretty rare."
