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To: PIF

I have read that wine was sealed with cork and then a lead overlay ...lots of really disturbed people in history are said to have suffered from lead poisoning

I wonder if that’s true


15 posted on 06/27/2024 5:27:56 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: SMARTY

The very wealthy in Rome drank from containers made of glass. The glass making process used lead.


25 posted on 06/27/2024 9:55:00 AM PDT by mware
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