An Antiques Roadshow expert had the shock of his life when he found out a vintage port he drank was actually a bottle of urine, rusty nails and a human hair.

Specialised glass dealer Andy McConnell appeared on the show in 2016 and had a taste of the dark red liquid and said he believed it to be either port or red wine.

The suspect bottle belonged to a man called John after finding it buried in his house. Keen to know what was in it, he brought it to the roadshow in Trelissick, Cornwall.

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Andy dated it from the 1800s before using a syringe to inject some of the liquid out from the corked bottle.

He said: “How brilliant!”

Before adding: “It’s very brown.”

The audience watched in quiet horror as he tasted it with his finger, before everyone started nervously giggling around him.

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He said: “I think it is port or red wine. It’s one or the other. Or, it’s full of rusty old nails and that’s rust.”

Three years later Fiona Bruce delivered the horrifying news that Andy’s fears were true - and they were even worse than he suspected.

She said: “Last time you were together, John and Andy, was in Trelissick. You brought along this bottle in the house. It was buried in the threshold.

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“You showed it to Andy and you decided to have a go at tasting the contents.”

Andy joked that he was “always the naught boy at school” and added it was “too good an opportunity to miss.”

Fiona said that Loughborough University had a look at the contents, x-rayed them and poured them out, before making the disgusting discovery.

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“You thought it might be port or wine. That would have been nice. In actual fact - you said it tasted really rusty.

“Inside were these brass pins, all of these dating from the late 1840s. Then the liquid - urine, a tiny bit of alcohol, and one human hair.”

Grimacing, Andy replied: “Lovely.”

Antiques Roadshow airs Sundays at 8pm on BBC One.

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