Wine by numbers: the finished product

The final part of this series of articles will look at the statistics concerning wine itself, the finished product. 

Wine – oldest bottle 

The oldest vintage currently in our database of nearly 135,000 tasting notes is a madeira from the 1780 vintage. That has nothing on what is reputedly the world's oldest bottle, however, which was discovered in a Roman tomb and supposedly dates from around 350 AD. But if we stick to what are verified bottles of wine then nothing is older than...