Wine bottle
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Wine bottle has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Rest Is History. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Tom HollandEnglish actor cast as Telemachus
Holland explained that modern wine bottles are dark as a legacy of seventeenth-century English coal-fired glass, which consumers came to associate with quality.
“Essentially, that is why wine bottles tend to be dark to this day”
The Rest Is History: 666. Wine and the Birth of Civilisation (May 3, 2026) · Listen from 43:19
Dominic SandbrookBritish historian, author and co-host of The Rest Is History
Sandbrook suggested Kenelm Digby's credit for the English bottle was somewhat undeserved and that he was merely a figurehead.
“Yes, this is slightly undeserved, isn't it? There aren't loads of people working on this and he's basically just the figurehead”
The Rest Is History: 666. Wine and the Birth of Civilisation (May 3, 2026) · Listen from 42:43
Podcasts
- The Rest Is History · 1 episode
Episodes
666. Wine and the Birth of CivilisationThe Rest Is History · May 3, 2026 · 1 h 16 min
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the history of wine through seven key moments, from Neolithic Georgia and Rome to Islam, English bottles, French terroir and the 1976 Judgement of Paris.