For centuries, European vintners used monstrous concrete tanks to ferment and store their wines, a technique used in California’s oldest wineries before Prohibition. But when the state’s wine industry ...

Walk through a winery’s production facility and you may see one or more eggs — enormous concrete eggs. Are these just for Easter? Square or rectangular concrete tanks were used as fermentation vessels ...

Ceramic clay used for wine fermentation, storage, and as a transport vessel is as old as ancient Greco/Roman culture. One of the Roman provinces, Gaul (France) at first eschewed using the ceramic ...