Martin Brown pushed briefly to the front
of the queue on Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:44:09 +0100, and nailed this to
the shed door:

^ mid 80's and amazingly it was still very good. The bottle of elderberry
^ wine of the same vintage was fit only for drain cleaner. ISTR the key to
^ good elderflower champagne is to make sure only flower petals and no
^ chlorophyll gets into the batch.

Just like the secret of good elderberry wine is to make sure no stalky
bits get into the pulp. Whether it would guarantee it for 20 years, I
cannot say, I'm lucky if mine lasts 20 months ...

Andy
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"No, you claim the magpie is to blame for all the
worlds ills, based on your ignorance of magpies."
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