From Dolium to Cup: Rome's Wine Supply Chain
How did wine actually get from the vineyard to a Roman cup? No bottles, no corks, no personal cellars — instead, a three-tier vessel system that treated wine as a poured commodity rather than a packaged product. We walk the chain from the dolia — six-foot ceramic tanks, some cemented into ship hulls — through the amphorae that carried it across the empire and never came back, to the thermopolia where ordinary Romans bought their daily cup. Along the way: a hill in Rome made of 53 million discarded containers, counterfeit workshop stamps in the first century, and the glassblowing revolution…
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