SC - Wine

[Caitlin Cheannlaidir]

At 05:44 PM 1/4/98 -0600, Bear wrote:
>Bottles have been used since Roman times at the least.  What was not
>available, to my knowledge, were bottles capable of handling
>champagne-like pressures.
>

Is this really an issue with bottles, or with their corks/stoppels?  My
lord and I recently took up glassblowing and I have a couple of blown-glass
wine bottles here of a sort much like what could have been blown in period.
 Mine have fairly thick walls (much thicker than a modern machine-made
glass bottle) because the temperature of the molten glass was (relatively)
low.  I'd be surprised if these couldn't handle a significant amount of
internal pressure.  Corks/stoppels that won't fly across the room are
another matter!

=Caitlin, glassworker


- --Caitlin Cheannlaidir
  caitlin at phosphor-ink.com
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