But having sipped a tiny mouthful of the half-fermented vintage - which will be called The Manuscript, in reference to the story about Mr Mandela burying his autobiography in the prison garden - I can tell you it tastes just fine.

BBC: Africa

On Tuesday, he said he saw two gunmen looking at the plaque outside his house: It reads "Biblioteque de Manuscripts, " or manuscript library, a reference to his grandfather's parchment collection.

WSJ: Historic Timbuktu Texts Saved From Burning

In 1971 a facsimile version of the manuscript was printed and 1000 copies published for scholarly reference.

UNESCO: Memory of the World