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2,600-year-old Phoenician wine 'factory' unearthed in Lebanon
National Geographic ^
| September 14, 2020
| Tom Metcalfe
Posted on 09/20/2020 9:02:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:02:50 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Wouldn't it be great if we had all the wine ever produced in the world at our disposal?
It would take me hundreds of years to drink it all.
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:03:58 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(Orange Man GOOD!)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
They also invented dinner and a movie.
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:04:02 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SamAdams76
This one only holds 1200 gallons of the juice, which to some could be a slow weekend. :^)
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:05:09 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SamAdams76
Only hundreds of years, you say?
Lush.
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:06:15 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults.)
To: SunkenCiv
Large numbers of seeds show grapes were brought there from nearby vineyards and crushed by treading feet in a large basin of durable plaster
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:06:28 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Jonty30
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:07:09 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(Orange Man GOOD!)
To: SunkenCiv
>>They also invented dinner and a movie.
"Oh look, it's a moving picture!"
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:08:27 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
To: SamAdams76
Might take considerably longer as you get to those boxed wines and $3 bottles...
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:09:21 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
To: SunkenCiv
Too many pop ups to read it.
Nasty toenail fungus and feet that have walked through dung doesn’t give the wine a fruity flavor.
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:19:23 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: SunkenCiv
Around this same time frame, there were at least three different types of mechanical presses to obtain olive oil, but the only way they could press grapes was to have people stamp them with their nasty, crusty feet?
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posted on
09/20/2020 9:19:39 AM PDT
by
Flag_This
(China delenda est.)
To: SunkenCiv
Your illustration shows the occupation of president Stompy Foot’s ancestors. ‘Tis a wonder they could put one foot in front of the other consistently...
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posted on
09/20/2020 10:18:23 AM PDT
by
W.
(What, me worry?)
To: SunkenCiv
OH, Memories of an old I LOVE LUCY episode comes to mind!
To: dfwgator
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Sensible-looking little facility.
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posted on
09/20/2020 12:04:14 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("What we can see of God's canvas is laughably small." ~Bp. Barron)
To: Flag_This
Maybe the business owner didn’t want to make the capital investment. They’ve excavated a mechanical grape-pressing facility in Pompeii, I believe, from a few hundred years later, but Romans got a lot of processes going on a larger scale than was being done in the Levant.
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posted on
09/20/2020 12:07:08 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("What we can see of God's canvas is laughably small." ~Bp. Barron)
To: SunkenCiv
So Phoenician wine kept the Egyptians happy...
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posted on
09/20/2020 3:59:36 PM PDT
by
nicollo
(I said no!)
To: SamAdams76
“It would take me hundreds of years to drink it all.”
Probably more than that just from the Phoenician wines. Greek and Roman wines likely had as high as 15% or 20% ABV, compared with 10-12% or so in most modern wines. In general when you’re brewing anything, getting much above 10-15 % ABV requires specialty yeasts or concentration techniques, and getting above 18 % and close to 20 % is very difficult. But they did it on a regular basis. You would be spending a lot of time hung over and sick from it. Those percentages could produce alcohol poisoning real easy.
rwood
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posted on
09/20/2020 11:23:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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