Source for Wine cups?

[Carlton Bach]

Thanks, will try my luck elsewhere since 500 Euro a Cup is quite a steep price.

Btw...I keep reading Romans, beside diluting the wine with water, also used honey, lemon and even saltwater to mix with their drinks. Spices are also mentioned. Has anyone had a good experience with all this? What would be a nice tasting Roman mix?

Lemon most likely not - while a variant of citron probably was known in Roman times, lemons as we understand them seem to be a evelopment of the Middle Ages. But yes, the Romans had a more utilitarian approach to wine than modern English-speakers do. I think the analogy to the modern way of drinking spirits is a good one - the finer varieties prized for their own sake, but others mixed with happy, experimental abandon. The prevalent modern attitude to wine is the result of some awful, middle-classish snobbery (and you don't get it in real wine-growing countries to the same degree). Traditionally, weines in the English-speakiong world were a luxury, and rich people were expected to know thie vintages and appreciate them. In the hands of upwardly mobile middle classes, this turned into a mystique of 'the wine', making the mixing or sweetening of even throroughly undeserving plonk a crime against good manners. I do wonder if anyone ever told the that the nobility used to take Burgundy beaten with raw egg and sugar for breakfast in the 1700s?

I don't know if the Romans knew carragheen, but if they did, they probably tried Samian jello shots I'm generally not a wine drinker, so I have to rely on anecdotal evidence here, but it seems once you get over your inhibitions and the expectation of a defined 'wine' taste, spices, honey, resin, or even salt water can make a pleasant addition. A palate cleanser of strong wine and myrrh certainly does the trick.