Interesting Reading This Morning

[Thomas]

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...