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Jun 11, 2021
3 minutes
Wine reviews by Gill Gordon-Smith IWE
Illustrations by
Eddy Sara.
Historically a pottery vessel with two handles (or a unit of measure) but now used in wine circles to describe a large clay pot used to ferment and age wine. The practice originated some 6000 years ago in what’s now modern-day Georgia in pots known as qvevri – though many old world regions have used similar vessels over the centuries. The slightly porous clay gives the wine texture by allowing a little
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