Weird one about landlords..

[PhDpepper]

Right so not really AIBU however, I've just moved a ton of crap in the garage most of it my landlords to make room for a bulk delivery of logs we're getting tonight. I've had no reason to move their boxes before... but one fell open as I was moving it and it's full of wine from 1901 and earlier. I'm not a wine person but this is expensive right?

My landlord lives overseas and doesn't come back apart from once a year.

My question is- is this wine valuable?
And would IBU to ask them to put it on their insurance? Does this invalidate our home insurance because it's in our garage and not declared?

Help!

Google the brand and date. Could be worth next to nothing.

Even if it is potentially valuable, it will depend on how it has been stored. Most wine suffers if it not kept at a constant temperature - neither too cold, not too warm.
Few if any wines benefit from being stored for 100 years plus even if kept at the correct temperature.
Open a bottle and see!

Pre 1944 bottles are very valuable to scamsters certain collectors.

Some of it looks totally rancid 🤢

They won't care about the wine. It's the pre-nuclear glass bottles they'd want. You can't pass off a wine as being pre-nuclear in a bottle made after 1944.

It doesnt invalidate your insurance. It isnt yours and you will not be claiming anything relating to it. Its the landlords loss to insure if he wants to.

I'm sure the wine is well gone. It doesn't get better the more it ages. All wines have an expiration date.

I've seen a few £200+ bottles of wine poured down the sink due to being past it.

Thanks all :) was just checking it wouldn't screw up our insurance

Not at all. You can only insure what you own, so the landlord insures the property and their contents ( carpets, curtains as well as wine) and you insure yours with tenants contents insurance.