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I have used this glass in this Video: Old Soup Bowl.
I have tasted the following wines in this Video: Do not try this at home.
One of the most fascinating aspects of wine is that it is so deeply intertwined with our culture.
A very important reason for this is its immensely strong link to Christianity.
The word “wine” is mentioned more than 200 times in the bible and no other plant appears more often in the bible than the vine. Even god was described as a vintner carefully trying to make sure that his vines carry the best fruit. The first thing Noah did after stranding with his arch is to plant a vineyard and he also was the first person to get drunk from wine.
Arguably the most important figure when it comes to spreading the interest in wine was not Hugh Johnson, Robert Parker, or Jancis Robinson but Jesus. Jesus’ coming out party as the savior and the first miracle he performed was when he turned water to wine at a wedding in the village of Cana. When Jesus decided to tell his disciples at the Last Supper holding the vessel filled with wine that became the holy grail: This cup is the new covenant in my blood. He created one of the most important rituals in the world and a reason for religious people to plant vines wherever they went to celebrate the Eucharist.
But even if there are a lot of references to wine there is very little information in the bible on how the wine from the last supper tasted. Let’s give this period a little bit of perspective: At the time when Jesus lived wine production was already fairly widespread. The oldest traces of wine production are from 6000 BC – so wine was by no means a recent invention.
When the Romans ruled large parts of Europe, Eastern Asia, and Northern Africa and wherever they went they brought winemaking with them. The wine was also traded and exported between regions and countries so Jesus might have had access to the most famous wine of that time Falernian which was an alcoholic deep amber, white wine from today’s Campania region in Italy – it is pretty unlikely though that a poor carpenter´s son in Palestine would have been able to buy it. Roman scholar Pliny the Elder who lived from 23-79 AD – so roughly during the same period as Jesus – knew all about wine and had written a book on wine. He ranked wine according to quality and talked about dry and sweet wines and the qualities of different vineyards – what we would call terroir today.
His approach to rating vineyards and categorizing wines is similar to the way we do this today, suggesting that the wines back then might be similar to today’s wines and that Terroir was relevant back then too. But Pliny was mainly focused on Italy while Jesus spent most of his time in today’s Israel so what were the wines like down there? We know that while wine was also just fermented grape juice it was often flavored with Pepper, Tree resin, honey, pomegranate, cinnamon, and much more and also diluted with water.
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Glühwein…
Disapointing…
Try reading Brian Muraresku's book
Interesting video.
Since you used your home made Pinot for this, I have always wondered how it turned out. You did a tasting of your Riesling but never the Pinot.
Alcohol definetly is the prophets muse. in the apocryphal writtings there is ample referrence that the prophets brew a sacred wine and would get shitfaced in rituals to 'meet' god.
why is it that religions aim to have such a tight control over alcohol commerce and that most still use it in the rituals?
This is a very fun and informative video. Thank you.
What about tasting wines from middle age, comparing low class wine versus upper classes wine
Thank you konstantin
Thanks for this video
Well done, "You have saved the fine wine until now." So said the director of the feast. The only differents is if you was that director Konstantin I could see you keeping a few jars for yourself, or should I say wine skins!…hehe!
Probably extremely hard to deliver… Dom Perignon (monk, not brand) sparkling wine! 🎉
"Legend says that at the time of the Roman Empire, first Julius Caesar and then Marcus Anthony arrived in Egypt at the court of the beautiful Cleopatra with a bottle of “Vinum Acquense”, much appreciated by the Queen to awaken the ardour of her legendary lovers. The “Vinum Acquense” was sweet by nature, lively and intoxicating; it came from today’s Alto Monferrato. And above all, it was believed to have aphrodisiac power." Brachetto D'Acqui?
5:07 Oh, you are making glögg. 😄
“Jesus wept”
Then turned that water into wine, according to mythological stories. (According to 4 contradictory NT anonymous ‘eyewitness accounts’, decades after the event, with no corroborating accounts 🤨) Arguably a conjured Roman story, the originators of some of the finest wines now 😇
Viva Amarone.
Jesus was down with some Mad Dog 20/20
Great episode. Loved it.
Thanks for this, Konstantin! Very interesting, as always. One note: we're told that the Last Supper was held in an "upper room," which was an unusual and rare architectural space in Jesus' day, and therefore almost certainly owned by someone with means. From this and other evidence, we know that there were clearly followers of Jesus who were wealthy. So it is certainly possible that they would have dined on a finer wine at the Last Supper. As you point out, we can't know for sure, but it's a legitimate possibility. Thanks again for this video, and all of your great work! Cheers!
What gave you the inspiration to do this being it is so far away from Easter season.
German from Heidelberg !! Cheers
As they say in the famous South Park cartoon 2000 years ago people had more impressions from everything than they have now.
By the title I thought that this episode would be about tasting variety mass wines. I asked once a Catholic priest why he uses white wine instead of red one for transubstantiation, if this should be blood of Christ and he said to me with sudden honesty: "Because red wine stains cloths used for purification so much and we have a choice".
When I read about historical Middle Age vineyards in Poland they were almost exclusively established for liturgical purposes, because wine for Catholic mass has to be made entirely from grapes and importing wine from traditional regions was expensive.
Jesus, like all gurus, had some wealthy followers. I’m sure he didn’t have to pinch pennies, especially since he knew this was the last wine he’d drink.Good video.
Fascinating! I LOVE the way you think! The water turned into wine was the GREATEST wine ever!
Pretty humorous!
This was very funny. I laughed my ass off🤣. It might taste like glògg people drink during chrismas here. Its served hot though. But same principle of adding herps and swettnes but also raisins and almonds.
I always knew it, the holy grail was a bembel!
Hmm…..can’t think of a real historical one, but they’re constantly drinking wine on Game of Thrones…..are there any notes on what that was like?
Gunna need a geenie lamp to light the way!
What about re creating wine from Ancient Greece ? Don’t they actually have still existing samples and recipes ?
Jesus, this is good 😀
I really enjoyed this video! I teach history and religion, and obviously love wine. Ticks all the boxes!
"I don't feel Holy, if that's what you're thinking, but it didn't kill me." Best line ever. I love your channel.
That was fascinating! I'd never even thought of how the wine back then might have tasted. Loved the throwaway "Here's some wine I made in my basement" 😄
As for other historical wines to recreate, how about the Malmesy that the Duke of Clarence was reputedly drowned in? 😉
I know you can't get the berries there but here in the southeastern USA ( I'm in Atlanta Georgia ) we have Muscadines which are considered a wild gape, perhaps you have heard of them. If you are ever in this part of the country give the wine a try both red and white. Thanks for your Holy Grail video,, are you still alive :):) ???
I heard the 33 A.D. vintage was rather poor.
There are two reasons to believe that the wine used for the Last Supper may have been of better quality than for everyday consumption: 1) When Jesus Christ performed the miracle of turning water into wine at Cana, the guests praised the attendants for the good quality of that wine 2) Christ did not shy away from quality goods, when a woman poured expensive oil on his head, he praised her for it and they threw lots about his robes because it was of good material.
This video is just so good
Second part of the red wine making!!! We want it!!!😅😅😅
Very well researched, I have often wondered about this, in Jesus' hands a cheap wine would taste like Chateauneuf – I believe the Holy Grail is wooden + still exists