774 Accidental discovery

It is clear that the shape of the jue is not suitable for drinking wine, but if the focus is on alcohol and exploring other approaches, we find that it is neither suitable for filtering nor warming wine.

Warming and filtering wine are uncommon practices today because the ancient people's methods of making wine were not as advanced as today's. They relied on fermentation rather than distillation, which often resulted in a mixture of wine and sediment.

In even more ancient times, such as in Ancient Egypt or the Sumer civilization, what was produced as "wine" could be better described as fermented, thick barley porridge.

That is why many people in ancient times referred to drinking wine as "eating wine." It really was eating wine, and the ancient concept of "eating" wine is not the same as the modern concept of "drinking" it.