. Although the bottle had already existed, it was used primarily as a midpoint to get the wine from the barrel to the cup. But more permanent storage for a higher volume of wine was also necessary and came in the form of pottery. Bottles had previously been seen as an unreliable measure of wine as each was individually blown by a glass blower and, in turn, held inconsistent volumes of liquid. Here are some other blogs you may also enjoy: Red Letters with Tom Davis Recent prayer post on Prayables Most Recent Inspiration blog post Happy Reading! In this series on the death of Jesus, I have presented four different perspectives on why Jesus had to die: Roman, Jewish, Jesus’, and Early Christian. But […], Can We Find God in the City? The industry has been more accepting of accessories that alter the effects of the problem rather than the container that aims to eliminate it. This shape made them impossible to lie on their sides, and forced them to be stored upright. Walk around and count the many towers. Changing lives is the point. Corks were not well-fitted as they were simply meant to keep bugs and dust out, not to create an airtight seal. Odysseus’ Homeric cellar, reputed to have amphorae of fine wines lined up by year, is a prime example of the cultivation of vintage wine collections in antiquity. When closed, these amphorae were so tightly sealed that they were able to preserve wine and facilitate longevity which accounts for the vintage wines attested to in antique sources. And no one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, ‘The old is good enough.” Jesus began teaching this parable about old wine, new wine, old wineskins, and new wineskins by first making a common sense statement. Dissecting Current Research Related to Wine, The History of Wine Containers: Featuring Guest Writer Emily Kate. But let me be very clear about something: I’m not the wine; I’m just a wineskin of this church. The gases exerted increased pressure. You may also visit her website, The Wine Historian. The Magazine Basic Theme by bavotasan.com. In addition, the rising popularity of wine in Gaul facilitated the widespread use of the cask, as the Gauls could not master the art of pottery at the same level as the Italians and Romans. Given the historical precedent for change in wine containers, the bottle shouldn’t be heralded as a classic as it is a relatively modern concept. . If the bottle was a return to the airtight ancient amphora, the bag-in-box is an homage to the malleable biblical wineskin. Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician and philosopher. Psalm 48:1-14 Go, inspect the city of Jerusalem. Early in 2007 I had my own, personal problem of wineskins, but it didn’t have to do so much with the church as with my own discipleship. Matt is the preaching minister at the Auburn Church of Christ in Auburn, Alabama. Hickey, The Origins and Ancient History of Wine Edited By Patrick E. McGovern, Stuart J. Fleming and Solomon H. Katz, The Archaeological Evidence for Winemaking, Distribution and Consumption at Proto-Historic Godin Tepe, Iran by Virginia R. Badler, An Enologist’s Commentary on Ancient Wines by Vernon L. Singleton, Canaanite Jars and the Late Bronze Age Aegeo-Levantine Wine Trade by Albert Leonard Jr, Wine Amphoras in Ancient Greek Trade by Carolyn G. Koehler, Wine and the Vine: An Historical Geography of Viticulture and the Wine Trade by Tim Unwin, The Fruit of the Vine: Viticulture in Ancient Israel by Carey Ellen Walsh, Studies in the Medieval Wine Trade by Margery Kirkbride James, History of the Wine Trade in England Vol. No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Jesus used an image familiar to his audience – new and old wineskins. This post highlights a new study examining the influence of age on aroma perception and salivary flow rates in wine tasting. And this, my friends, is the point. Echoing the insights I had once learned from Howard Snyder, I called our church to a costly, scary openness to the new wine of Christ and the new wineskins required to contain that new wine.