Wine Making in Ancient Egypt (Inside the tomb of Nakht in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna -Luxor) |
To hold wine, they blamed a bunch of grapes and squeezed all of the juice out by treading on them in a trough big sufficient to hold at least six men. This mixture was white in a clay pot with the date and vinery almost exactly like today. For much of the ancient Egyptian history, wine was more often than not consumed at the court of the Pharaohs. They regular determined an official as wine-taster. Wine was also a common drink in the menus of rich and powerful of ancient Egypt.