An entertaining story about Roman-era wine production on Crete and counterfeiting sweet wines (allegedly... :-)
https://theconversation.com/how-i-uncovered-a-potential-ancient-rome-wine-scam-258215
#Wine #WineHistory #Greece #RomanEra #WineExport #Amphora #Appassimento #Knossos
@amnis There is a lot of Amphora winemaking these days....it seems to be a trend. Some are more successful than others! I find some that are shockingly good; others seem flawed. So it goes. I have never seen one in Piemonte!
This is a picture I took of the Amphora Museum in Alentejo, a region where it is particularly popular in Portugal. #wine #amphora #portugal #alentejo
These beautiful Amphora Glass Bottles come in two witchy colors, and they're perfect for holding your herbal blends, powdered incense, potions, and other concoctions!
https://bit.ly/48g3jcY
#KitchenWitch #Apothecary #Amphora #Herbs #Incense #Potion #Elixir #Witch #Witchcraft #Magick
Part 5 (the last part!)
There was also the 2022 "fresh from Amphora" Nat'Cool Branco offering with Niepoort too, with Perrum, Rabo de Ovelha and Manteúdo. This was straightforward, but bright, clean and lively. For $20 for one liter, it a best buy. Amphora wines can be a little pricier at times, although Rocim's own Branco Vinho de Talha was just $20 (750ml). Not the best, but good QPR.
Lots of good things to explore. Nice job from Rocim and partners.
#Wine #winesofportugal #alentejo #amphora
Final stop this trip: Rocim's Amphora Day. It is pretty crowded, they've got a lot of wineries, a lot of consumers, and a very good vibe. I had a lot of good tastings here, more to come.
#Wine #winesofportugal #amphora @rocim.universe
The #Roman villa of #Settefinestre. Excavated by Carandini alongside the excavations of #Cosa, its nearest town and home of the Sestii, whose #amphora dominated the 1st century BCE wine trade to Western Gaul.
So... maybe this will help you out?
#TTRPG #TTRPGArt #artCommissionRequest #ArtCommission #AncientGreece #amphora
The pottery of the Mycenaean civilization (1550-1050 BCE), although heavily influenced by the earlier Minoans based on Crete, nevertheless, added new pottery shapes to the existing range and achieved its own distinctive decorative style which was strikingly homogenous across Mycenaean Greece. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/455/mycenaean-pottery/ #History #Aegean #Amphora #BronzeAge
Wine was the most popular manufactured drink in the ancient Mediterranean. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/944/wine-in-the-ancient-mediterranean/ #History #Aegean #Aegina #Amphora
Greek pottery has four main types: Geometric, Corinthian, Athenian Black-figure, and Athenian red-figure pottery. https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Pottery/ #History #Amphora #BlackFigurePottery #Bucchero
Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-archaeological-poem-virgil-remnants-roman.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2023-06-archaeological-poem-virgil-remnants-roman.html
Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/physorg_com/status/1671557326371684358#m
An archaeological first: A poem by Virgil appears on the remnants of a Roman oil #amphora https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/abs/las-georgicas-de-virgilio-in-figlinis-a-proposito-de-un-grafito-ante-cocturam-sobre-un-anfora-olearia-betica/742CDE20EED6987767C896C2A1F01739 https://phys.org/news/2023-06-archaeological-poem-virgil-remnants-roman.html
The Carthaginians, like their Phoenician forefathers, were highly successful traders who sailed the Mediterranean with their goods, and such was their success that Carthage became the richest city in the ancient world. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/911/carthaginian-trade/ #History #Amber #Amphora #Berbers
Black Figure Pottery is a type of Greek pottery named after the colour of the scenes painted on vessels. https://www.worldhistory.org/Black_Figure_Pottery/ #History #Amphora #BlackFigurePottery #FrancoisVase
The pottery of the Mycenaean civilization (1550-1050 BCE), although heavily influenced by the earlier Minoans based on Crete, nevertheless, added new pottery shapes to the existing range and achieved its own distinctive decorative style which was strikingly homogenous across Mycenaean Greece. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/455/mycenaean-pottery/ #History #Aegean #Amphora #BronzeAge
Well, I didn't expect to get #nerdsniped by a 8 thousand year old piece of technology today
#Amphora are fucking cool, they were like the modern day shipping container of their time. Standardized, used for both liquid and solid cargo, and easy to carry and secure on standardized mounts.
Let alone being an impressive feat of #pottery to make
Trade and commerce were essential components of the success and expansion of the Byzantine Empire. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1179/trade-in-the-byzantine-empire/ #History #AlexiosIKomnenos #Amber #Amphora
Dipylon Amphora. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dipylon_Amphora #Amphora #NotableVessels #art
Black figure pottery is a type of Greek pottery named after the colour of the scenes painted on vessels. It was first produced in Corinth c. 700 BCE and then adopted by pottery painters in Attica, where it would become the dominant decorative style from 625 BCE. Athenian vases then dominated the Mediterranean pottery market for the next 150 years.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Black_Figure_Pottery/ #Amphora #BlackFigurePottery #FrancoisVase
The François Vase is a large Attic volute-krater dating to c. 570-565 BCE, and it is perhaps the example par excellence of the black-figure pottery style. An astonishing range of scenes and characters from Greek mythology cover the vase and make it an important reference for these stories, some of which no longer exist in written form.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Francois_Vase/ #Amphora #BlackFigurePottery #FrancoisTomb
More skin-contact white wines made in China, this time by Canaan winery just outside of Beijing.
- The Riesling has 1 month of skin contact in amphora, then 6 months of aging in old oak.
- The white blend, with Muscat, Chenin Blanc, Ehrenfelser, Müller-Thurgau and more, has 6 weeks of skin contact in stainless steel.
Both wines are fresh and floral, with that Riesling having ample lemon-y character, while the white blend's aromas dance all over the place: chrysanthemum, passion fruit, jasmine, citrus peel and more.
Anyway, I brought back one bottle of each to include in my next tasting in Beijing. Looking forward to sharing them!
#wine #china #chinawine #chinesewine #skincontactwine #amberwine #amphora #riesling #muscat, #cheninblanc #ehrenfelser #mullerthurgau #zhongfa #domainefrancochinois #grapewallofchina #winelife
