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From: barton@uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Italian wine bottles
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Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 13:59:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  7 13:59:00 1986
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Nf-From: uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU!barton    Oct  7 12:59:00 1986


Some friends and I were in an Italian restaurant recently and got to
talking about the wine bottles with the woven basket attached to the
bottom.  Does anybody out here know of any reason for the basket other
than aesthetic?  Maybe a historic significance.

Richard R. Barton
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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