VESSELS FOR STORAGING WINE IN ANCIENT ROME AND TODAY

Abstract

Wine seems to be one of the oldest beverages known to man. In order for the wine to have the required quality and not posing a danger to human health, it is necessary, as part of the production process, to be stored in appropriate vessels before reaching the consumer. The authors of this article, using the historical method and the method of analysis and comparison, will merge two different periods: Rome and today. The unusual merging of two different periods of human civilization is aimed at proving the hypothesis of this article that wine storage vessels are not a creation of today world, and their development in modern times contributes to keeping the wine quality as a food agricultural product. Also, in the article, the authors will present the way of sale and inheritance of wine in Rome, because the storage of wine in the amphorae, during the sale or inheritance then, contributed to the preservation of its quality, sale and inheritance.