Mar 23, 2020
There Ain’t ‘Alf Some Clever Bastards – Part One Hundred And Three
There Ain’t ‘Alf Some Clever Bastards – Part One Hundred And Three - Sir Kenelm Digby and the modern wine bottle
Sir Kenelm Digby (1603 – 1665)
Until the arrival of the glass bottle in the early 17th century, wine was stored and transported initially in amphorae, two-handled ceramic vessels lined with beeswax, favoured by the Phoenicians, ancient Greeks and Romans, and then barrels made from oak or pine, an idea prototyped by the Gauls for storing their beer and then adopted by the Romans with some…
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