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A wine glass is a type of glass that is used for drinking or tasting wine. Most wine glasses are stemware (goblets), composed of three parts: the bowl, stem, and foot. There are a wide variety of slightly different shapes and sizes, some considered especially suitable for particular types of wine.
Glass unguentaria made in Thessaly, for example, often have a distinctive conical body, flared like the bell of a trumpet, or are squat and rounded with a very long neck; they come in a range of colors including aquamarine, pale green, and yellowish green, or may be colorless. [22]
Bocksbeutel. The Bocksbeutel (German: [ˈbɔksˌbɔɪ̯tl̩] ⓘ) is a type of wine bottle with the form of a flattened ellipsoid.It is commonly used for wines from Franconia in Germany, but is also used for some Portuguese wines, in particular rosés, where the bottle is called cantil, and in rare cases for Italian wine (in this case called pulcianella) and Greek wine.
A rosé Vinho Verde. The Romans Seneca the Younger and Pliny the Elder both made reference to vines in the area between the rivers Douro and Minho. [7]A record exists of a winery being donated to the Alpendurada convent in Marco de Canaveses in 870 AD, and the vineyards seem to have expanded over the following centuries, planted by religious orders and encouraged by tax breaks.
The Carmona wine urn is a first-century Roman glass urn containing intact wine. The urn was discovered in 2019 in Carmona, Spain during excavations of the city's western Roman necropolis . Analysis of the urn's contents five years after its discovery demonstrated the contents to be the oldest surviving wine in the world.
George Orwell described a porrón in Homage to Catalonia: [5] …and drank out of a dreadful thing called a porron. A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand.
The Wine Glass, 66.3 x 76.5 cm, c. 1660. Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. The Wine Glass (also The Glass of Wine or Lady and Gentleman Drinking Wine, Dutch: Het glas wijn) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Johannes Vermeer, created c. 1660, now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. [1] It portrays a seated woman and a standing man drinking in an interior setting.
Some of the skills of the Roman glass-makers survived in Lombardic Italy, exemplified by a blue glass drinking-horn from Sutri, also in the British Museum. The two Gallehus Horns (early 5th century), made from some 3 kg of gold and electrum each, are usually interpreted as drinking horns, although some scholars point out that it cannot be ruled ...