Amphora

Now, it looks like they were transporting amphoras.

Amphoras? Amphori? Uh, amphori filled with oil and, sadly, wine.

I mean, you know, spilling one glass of red wine can ruin a night, but spilling a whole shipload? That's a tragedy.

These jugs were discovered using robotic submersibles instead of human divers.

Fine red tableware, the glossy pottery we call Samian ware, made in the workshops of Gaul and shipped across the enorm- in enormous quantities so that farmers of Britain could eat off the same kind of dish as a household in Lyon.

Amphorae, the big ceramic shipping jars bringing wine and olive oil and fish sauce so treasured by the Mediterranean cultures.

And new coins in ordinary daily use.

Remember, before this, coinage was largely ceremonial, if it existed at all in Britain.

Grenache,

some fun stuff through Amphoras.

Ferguson Valley is probably one of the most underrated regions in WA at the moment.

It's so new in terms of the other regions, but I think it's going to be the alternative variety capital of Western Australia.

So 1,000 and 2,000 liters, we use X.

3,000 liters, we use like Anforas that we designed.

And 4,500 liters and 7,500 liters, we use another truncoconic and round vats.

Why we don't want square shapes? Because when you do a pillage and when you do a pump over, if you have square shapes, always in the corners, you work less than in the center.

it has to move.

Amphorae.

Amphorae are the shipping containers.

Wheel-thrown terracotta, two handles, pointed base.

The point matters.

This area has such an intriguing story.

It was a former dumping ground of the Amphora, which is the pottery storage vessel from the Roman ages, which so much of it was dumped, it actually created this man-made structure.

mountain.

And now the whole area is just bursting with local producers, one which is inside a cave in that very mountain.

For this reason, for centuries, many wines were either addicted or with added alcohol because higher alcohol was embedding the microorganism life or even it was usual in the past to add some honey or other things, or sometimes even herbs, sometimes even to hide bad smell and bad taste of wine.

Amphora doesn't have all these troubles, but the fact that it's fragile, which means that you could lose the whole production, impacted so deeply that during the Middle Age, the amphora was mainly used Not used anymore.

And most of people started using barrels.

Yoshko was curious about amphoras.

You're quite right.

The amphora shape.

Amphora, like a large, open.

that you can mix wine and water and things in, large bottle-like forms and so forth.

They develop a small repertoire.