For more than 7,000 years, people have enjoyed wine and devised different ways tostore "the nectar of the Gods". In ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, people kept wine in clay jars, which they sealed with a lump of clay to preserve the contents. For bulk storage and transportation, wine was stored in amphorae - large pottery vessels with spouts that werestoppered with cloth, leather and cork or fired clay, then sealed with mortar. Sumerian texts speak of large, wooden (probably date palm) barrels of wine being boated f... read more