A former boss of mine once gave me a page a day calendar on wine. I don't remember anything else about it except but the bit I scribbled down regarding wine corks. Apparently wine bottles were either left uncorked when brought to the table--that whole bit about filling the bottles from the cask--or stopped with glass--much like a crystal decanter.
Cork, however, though an ancient method of many things including the soles of sandals, buoys, and yes, wine corks, was not used widely until the mid to late 1700s.
I wish I'd kept the day it was on, I think it had more information. Why did I write it on a piece of scrap paper rather than keep the calendar page? Your guess is as good as mine.
I did search for this information, but since I don't even know the name of that page a day calendar, I didn't find exactly what I was looking for. However, I did find this!
From A History of Wine Corks and Bottles:
But, it was illegal to sell wine by the bottle in Britain until the 1860's.I have so many questions! Alas, that article didn't go into details about this very pertinent tidbit! So all those movies and books are wrong? I'm going to have to do more research into this.
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