I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, The Making of Wine has all sorts of philosophies, ideas, and dogmas that different producers adhere to,

and the packaging of Wine is no less subject to differing opinions.

Today I'll be leaking some information about closures in particular.

Amphora were sealed using a variety of different methods. Some Amphora were sealed using a variety of different methods. Some

Amphora found in Egypt were sealed with dried earth and linen. The dried earth

could then be stamped with seals depicting contents or origin.

Linen, cloth, or string could be tied around the handles, pressed into the mud,

and covered with the seal to indicate that the contents had not been

adultered from the origin point.

Much like how today, DOC strips from Italy can be found covering

many Italian corks as a symbol of provenance. Some of the earliest quirk evidence has been

excavated in Campania, where a honey-filled

amphora stopped with a cork was found in a sealed chamber.

About 2,500 years old, the vessel still had aromatic honey inside.

Quarks were being used by Etruskins and in Athens around 2,000 years ago to seal wine-filled

and fora, and were probably being used even earlier.

Greeks and Romans sometimes used quirk to CLM4A.

Sometimes quirk covered with pitch, and frequently just pitch itself

was used to cover the opening.

If the wine wasn't traveling and would be

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