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still together. And this is to be understood as much with minerals and metals as with wine, grain, and wood. For when the water is separated from the wine and beer, and the best parts are concentrated, they can keep for as long as one wishes. And when one needs them, one can then extend or dilute them with water as far as one wishes. One can always keep six Fuder large wine containers/wagon loads of wine in one fuderig sized for a Fuder barrel, which single barrel then—as is easily understood—does not take up as much space in the cellar as the six would otherwise have to occupy. It also does not cost as much to maintain with hoops as the six would, nor does anything evaporate from them, which otherwise happens with wine. One also has this great advantage with concentrated juices: that when one has them in storage, one can make new wines from them four, six, eight, or more weeks before the harvest time, and sell them for twice as much