These days, we know as well as medieval Italians that a new drink can be very useful in alleviating the disorders of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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Thus, the “windows” or buchette of Tuscan wine. They sound like they sound: tiny hatches, dug into the concrete walls of basements and urban shops, where beverage vendors served socially remote drinks.
First introduced in the 1600s, their true purpose went untapped for centuries after the plague — that is, until a new one came along this year.
“Everyone is confined to space for two months, and then the government authorizes a slow reopening,” reads on the Wine Window Association website. “Meanwhile, some owners of Florentine enterprising storefronts have gone back in time and are their shop windows for distributing wine glasses, coffee cups, drinks, sandwiches and ice cream – all without germs, without contact!”
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Matteo Faglia, president of the Wine Window Association, told Insider: “People can just hit the little wooden shutters and fill their bottles from the Antinori, Frescobaldi and Ricasoli families, who still produce some of Italy’s best-known wines today.”
More than 150 storefronts, some of which have been permanently filled, in the walled city of Florence, and more, dot the Tuscan region.
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“The stained glass windows gradually disappeared, and many wooden stained glass windows were permanently lost in the 1966 floods,” said Faglia, whose former arrangement initiated the procedure of mapping those forgotten and infrequently vandalized relics in the Italian wine region, marking them with a plaque to designate their importance and authenticity.
“We need to put a plaque on every window because other people tend to respect them more when they perceive who they are and their story,” he said.
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The Mediterranean country has been heavily affected by COVID-19, leaving more than 35,000 of its inhabitants, according to the World Health Organization. Despite this tragedy, the world witnessed the culture and camaraderie that helped the country through the medieval epidemic.
At the height of their national coronavirus epidemic, Italian choirs may be heard singing in solidarity through open windows and on rooftops, with a glass of wine in hand all the time.