his own into a criminal needs to mature in an old barrel so it doesn't take on the oak flavors fasold of only when a barrel is really old and has been primed as the wind relatively unaffected by the woods. who is to question i now here is one of the oldest barrels we have as you know and. we don't know if it was cooper to 958 or 10 years from partitions that makes it over 60 years old which is about the life expectancy of this kind of barrel as old fossil. it's not just the barrels that are old in another part of the cellar there a water pipe station back to roman times the 2nd century a.d. . so here home the entire from here we have an example of roman plumbing discovered by my predecessors in the 1960 s. when they were excavating the cellars skilless as if they don't give us a lot of the pipes lead down to the tree or imperial. the romans built a large complex of thermal bads about 500 meters from here the old city of tree or or parts of it are virtually under our feet here the romans also brought wind to the mosul region could be seen roman wine presses have been found all the way