Tsen Yong-yi, who lectures on Chinese Cultural Studies at National Taiwan University, points out that bronze containers unearthed from Shang Dynasty tombs still contained perfectly preserved wine. Dating back 3,200 years, much earlier than the Roman wine recovered from a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea, it is the oldest alcoholic drink in existence.
台大中文系講座教授曾永義指出，由商代古墓出土的青銅瓶中仍裝有酒，保存完好，時間在三千兩多百年前，較諸地中海沈船殘骸中發現的羅馬葡萄酒要早得多，是現存世界上最古老的酒。