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- Innkeeper - 09-05-2003
“And nobody who has been drinking old wines wants new. ‘The old is good,’ he says,†(Luke 5:39).
- Georgie - 09-05-2003
Verily, verily!
- Botafogo - 09-05-2003
Until that meddlesome prophet Bob of Maryland gives the new stuff a 97/100 that is....then many morons sell the stuff they got for squat and aged for twenty years to buy someting their grandkids MIGHT be able to drink.
Roberto
- wondersofwine - 09-05-2003
Roberto, this backs up your comment (as a 10-year-old no less) about they weren't discussing "grape juice" in the Bible. Who needs to age their grape juice?
When wine was such a part of daily life in Biblical times, it makes you wonder about religions that consider it sinful.
- Thomas - 09-05-2003
WOW, maybe the old wine back then was simply grape juice that finally fermented...of course, that could never happen to grape juice...
- Drew - 09-05-2003
and the definition of old in biblical days is???? Common wines weren't aged long at all, even those who had $ didn't age wines all that long due to the lack of proper storing vessels.
Drew
- Innkeeper - 09-06-2003
I don't know. Ask Luke.
- Drew - 09-06-2003
I'd rather ask my neighbor, "Bob". :d
Drew
- Thomas - 09-06-2003
Drew, during the time of the Apostles it had been established by Greeks, and then by Romans, that you could preserve (age) wine a few ways: addition of seawater, top up with honey, add pine resin, smoke the wines in a "smokehouse," and a few more ways, I am sure.
Without those methods, most of the ancient wines were quite coarse; with those methods the wines were still coarse but they mellowed some from aging.
This is of course, from history readings--I wasn't there. WW was, but I wasn't...
- winoweenie - 09-10-2003
I used the tested method of burying the vessel and sealing it with wax. [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]WW