Three ancient wine jars recovered from the ocean have shed further light on Roman winemaking practices.
They came, they saw, they vintaged.SIMILAR STORIES:that the three different wine jars—called “amphorae”—were plucked from the depths near the harbor of San Felice Circeo, a town located in Italy’s Lazio region.
Researchers from the Sapienza Università di Roma in Rome managed to date the amphorae back to around the first to second century BCE, and leveraged chemical analysis techniques founded in gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to determine how the Romans in the region made their wine.—was that much of the grapes and plants used in the wine were locally sourced. The tar pitches that the amphorae were made of, however, appeared to be imported from outside the region.
“The identification of [the pine] used to produce wood tar for waterproofing, matching the methyl ester diterpenic chemical markers characterized by GC-MS, indicates a non-local origin of the wood tar, as also suggested by ancient historical sources, reporting Calabria and Sicily as important production areas for pitch,” elaborates the study.
Whether the researchers involved in the study were inspired to make some of their own wine after conducting this study is unconfirmed. Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.
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