One GIANT leap !!!!!!!

[Thomas]

Hey Bernkastler, by the time of Jesus, Romans had 100 years earlier usurped the wine world from the Greeks, especially in the Middle East. Greeks, and then Romans, did add seawater (and other things) not only to lower alcohol but to preserve the wines as well.

The story of Cana is that the wedding feast had run out of wine and Jesus was asked to help out--he then produced wine on the spot from water. It is a story, and like all the stories of religion, it is meant to be a metaphor for something larger. The one thing that I take from the story is that wine was important to the culture, and that's all I need to know [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img]