Episode 27

A Wine and Cheese Pairing

Anna and Amber are keeping the festive mood alive this week with a wine and cheese platter for your ears, and boy howdy, is it a silly one... and we weren't even drinking! Learn about the world's oldest wine gunk and the many (many!) sizes of wine bottles, and then we'll discuss the difference between wine and "wine," and nibble on some stories about very, very aged cheese.

Old Wine: An ancient timeline for great old wine (Snooth)

Guide to Wine Bottle Sizes (Wine Folly)

You Can (Probably) Still Drink the World’s Oldest Bottle of Wine (Gastro Obscura)

Columella’s De Re Rustica

Drinks in Ancient Rome (Facts and Details [no, really])

The Wild Ancient Greek Drinking Game That Required Throwing Wine (Gastro Obscura)

A History of Wine in America (UC Press eBooks)

World's Earliest Wine (Archaeology)

Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus (PNAS)

The Wonders That Were Jiahu: The World’s Earliest Fermented Beverage (Penn Museum)

Chateau Jiahu (Dogfish Head Brewery)

Chemical and nutritional properties of 'tej', an indigenous Ethiopian honey wine: variations within and between production units (The Journal of Food Technology in Africa)

The Origin of Wine (Scientific American)

2,200-Year-Old ‘Rice Wine’ Found in China (SciNews)

Ancient wine discovered in Chinese tomb (CBC)

Ancient wine found in China (BBC)

Sake Isn't a Rice Wine, and Four Other Myths Dispelled (Eater)

Since 1700, Wine Glasses Have Gotten 7 Times Bigger (Gastro Obscura)

Proteomic Analyses on an Ancient Egyptian Cheese and Biomolecular Evidence of Brucellosis (Analytical Chemistry)

The new ‘world’s oldest cheese’ is more than 7,000 years old (National Post)

Fatty acid specific δ13C values reveal earliest Mediterranean cheese production 7,200 years ago (PLOSOne)

Breast Milk Ice Cream A Hit At London Store (NPR)

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