![]() ![]() During the voyage, the fruit of the vine continued to age.Ĭlay jars are not as airtight as today’s French oak barrels, but they do have advantages, says Brian Terrizzi, founder and winemaker at Gironata Wines in Paso Robles. Ships were built with boxes that allowed amphorae – the large jars used to transport wine – to stand straight up, she says. Before refrigeration and mechanized irrigation. It was a time before mass-produced pesticides and commercial yeast. Journey with a few experts to a land where transubstantiation meets carbonic maceration, as we ponder what is perhaps an unanswerable question: What did Jesus drink? Rather, it’s intelligent speculation about how that wine actually tasted. Some hold that the “wine” in Christ’s time was not alcoholic because such a beverage should never have touched the Lord’s lips. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Easter and Passover draw near, thoughts turn to the vine and curious minds reel. In ancient times, wine was precious and revered, mentioned more than 140 times in the Bible. “… the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, ‘Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one but you have kept the good wine until now.’” (John 2:9-10). And if you heed the Scriptures, quite a good one, according to the maitre d’ at the wedding in Cana. ![]()
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