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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.
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.
Alternative wine closures are substitute closures used in the wine industry for sealing wine bottles in place of traditional cork closures. The emergence of these alternatives has grown in response to quality control efforts by winemakers to protect against " cork taint " caused by the presence of the chemical trichloroanisole (TCA).
A wine stopper is an essential wine accessory to close leftover wine bottles before refrigerating them. Wine stoppers are used because it is hard to put the original cork back into the bottleneck. Wine stoppers vary in shapes, sizes, and materials. The three typical types are the cork wine stopper, rubber wine stopper, and plastic wine stopper.
The Knox Glass Bottle Company was a former American glass manufacturing company based in Knox, Clarion County, Pennsylvania. [1] The great majority of the company's production was in the form of glass bottles many of which were beer bottles, milk bottles, and many glass medicine bottles in a variety of standard sizes. Bottle collectors identify ...
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Digby's technique produced wine bottles which were stronger and more stable than most of their day, and protected the contents from light due to their green or brown translucent, rather than clear transparent, color. [2] These early bottles, usually referred to as "shaft and globe" bottles, evolved into the onion bottle shape by the 1670s.
Also in 1917 the company was once again renamed when W. E. Fraim bought into the company and the company's new name became the Slaymaker Lock Company. W.E. Fraim's father, E.T. Fraim, owned the rival E.T. Fraim lock company and had died that year (1917) and W.E. Fraim had had a falling out with his family after his father's death.