Answers to the quiz

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Sue has been dealing with responding to your wonderfully creative answers and makng a stab at giving feedback but it is probably time that I revealed all. So, without delay, the winner is Joe and Erica is second! The judge’s decision (Sue) is final. e

Here are the answers.

This is used for making butter, The handle emables the jar to be rocked back and forth (‘churned’). The hole allows gas which builds up in the process to escape. We didn’t find it at all probable but Nika swore this was the case.
This ia qvevri or jar buried underground and used for making wine. The qvevri has a beautiful shape which enables sediment to drop to the bottom.
This tool is used for cleaning out the qvevri when the wine has been decanted. It’s made of birch bark.
The wine is removed from the qvevri using this gourd,
The wild goat horn which Nika is holding is used for drinking the wine from the qvevri – it holds the equivalent of a bottle. Tgis was the question that most people got right.

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7 thoughts on “Answers to the quiz”

  1. Thank you for all your lovely posts. It is UN General Assembly week here in New York so I have little time to comment but I’m enjoying your blog a lot! I hope you continue to have a lovely time!

    1. So lovely to hear from you, Jens. Hope you’re not too stressed by UN General Assembly – so pleased you’re enjoying the blog. We’ve now reached the Black Sea!

  2. Oh well done ! I like to think that a more recent use has been found for an original Roman dormouse pot but I will keep that to myself from now on 🙂

  3. Very cool! I had no clue what these objects were for. I still do t quite get the wine making process but I trust it’s worth all that scooping and cleaning.

    1. Debatable point in my view – wine aged in clay pots underground tastes a bit, well, like wine aged in clay pots underground. There’s a reason God invented oak barrels and stainless steel vats..

  4. Very cool! I had no idea what all these objects were for. I still don’t quite get the wine making process but I trust it’s worth all that scooping and cleaning.

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