[Magdalen] Coffee Cups vs Wine Glasses

[Roger Stokes]

On 07/09/2016 15:34, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> The only aspect of sobriety that occasionally bothers me is that 
> enjoying wine is not possible for me, at least. When I gave up booze 
> for Lent 32 years ago December, the wine world was much smaller. It's 
> not that there weren't good wines in Australia/NZ, Chile, Africa, 
> etc., but they were not well known to North Americans (and I think 
> Europeans, alike).

I agree they weren't well-known in the UK at least, and probably the 
rest of Europe as well. A crucial factor in their widewr availability 
must have been the development and standardization of stackable 
containers that could be readily changed between different modes of 
transport (sea, rail, road) which dramatically reduced the handling 
costs. Deregulation of maritime shipping rates in 1984 also contributed.

Roger