Strubel Roos Wine

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1. Sparkling wines usually go bad within a year after bottling. They aren’t something that improves with age, quite to the contrary.

   Edit: the same sparking wine (obviously current vintage) goes for 12,50 Euro, so not a high price one either where you could expect some kind of collectors value.

   [https://www.strubel-roos.de/produkt/scheurebe-sekt/](https://www.strubel-roos.de/produkt/scheurebe-sekt/)

2. A bottle of the current vintage is available for €12.50, and you won’t get much more than that.

3. With a bit of luck, the sparkling wine will still taste good and still have carbon dioxide. Sparkling wine that is almost 20 years old tends to lose value…

4. This is a german sparkling wine (Sekt). Current price is 12,50€. This bottle is from 2006, which is quite old for a basoc Sekt. If stored perfectly, it might still taste decent. Other than that, it really has no added value due to age.

5. This is sparkling wine from a winemaker. B. A. stands for ‘bestimmte Anbaugebiete’ – selected growing regions.

   Strubel-Roos is a winery in Rheinhessen and they have their own homepage https://www.strubel-roos.de/weingut/

   I can’t tell you how much it’s worth but usually sparkling wine isn’t kept for such a long time. It might have lost the sparkles and not taste good any longer.

6. It has no value.

7. Open it, sniff it, taste it.

   Chances are that a) all the sparkle has gone and the sparkling wine has turned stale, and b) the wine already has or is on the way of transitioning into vinegar. Not poisonous, but probably not nice to drink, either.

8. Since it is sparkling wine, it’s worthless by now. In contrast to normal wines, these don’t keep very well. If it has been stored in perfect condition, it might still taste okay, but chances are low. Most sparkling wines expire after one year, not because they go bad like milk, etc, but because the manufacturers won’t guarantee that they’ll still taste good, have any sparkling left, etc.

9. >Recently i have discovered that i have a Branded German Wine,

   Sounds to me like it was very likely not stored the right way. This alone makes me doubt that the wine is still in a drinkable and enjoyable condition. How was it stored? Was the bottle standing up the whole time? Because that dries the cork out. A dried-out cork means there is potential airflow, which lets the wine age faster and eventually go bad due to accelerated bacteria growth and whatnot.

   >I would like to know how much is this bottle worth, because it seems really nicely made and its old.

   As others have pointed out, the sparkling wine isn’t worth that much. Also, not every (sparkling) wine is cut out to be stored for long periods. Apart from storing it right (issue mentioned above), it would need to have the right amount of acidity, sugar, and alcohol to stay shelf-stable for a long time.

   I’d just open it and see what happens. But don’t expect it to be any good. That would be close to a miracle tbh. The bottle itself with the tag and the wax seal is cool, though. If I were you, I’d keep it as a decorative piece and get one of those cork lights to put inside the bottle.

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