Seppeltsfield Vintage Para Tawny: Australia's most expensive wine
Nick Ryan is enchanted by the viscous beauty of 1924 Seppeltsfield Para Vintage Tawny, Australia's most expensive wine.
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Nick Ryan is enchanted by the viscous beauty of 1924 Seppeltsfield Para Vintage Tawny, Australia's most expensive wine.
For more than 90 years, a funnel of pitch in Brisbane has been slowly dripping into a beaker. Nine drops have fallen, now the long wait for the tenth is on
Timeline of the pitch drop experiment. The experiment was not originally carried out under any special controlled atmospheric conditions, meaning that the viscosity could vary throughout the year with fluctuations in temperature. However, sometime after the seventh drop fell in 1988, air conditioning was added to the location where the experiment resided. The temperature stability has lengthened the interval between each drop. The pitch drop experiment is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest continuously running laboratory experiment, but it isn’t the only pitch...