American and Israeli researchers excavating the Tel Kabri archaeological site in Israel announced discovery of the oldest known palatial wine cellar from ancient Canaan - "striking wine," that is, and when breaking through to a storage room adjoining a banquet hall, with the remains of 40 ceramic jars equivalent to what was once about 3,000 bottles of red and white wine. They may find even more wine cellars.Chemical analysis of residue indicate that it probably tasted like retsina or contemporary Greek resinous wines. According to the NY Times, the group will be reproducing "a reasonable facsimile." At banquets, it would have been served up with goat meat.
*Photo credit/via NY Times, photographer: Eric H. Cline/George Washington University, remains of ceramic wine jars from the ruins of a 1700 B.C. Canaanite palace in Northern Israel.
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