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Porrón (glass wine jar with tapered drinking spout)

Porrón (glass wine jar with tapered drinking spout). Baells Dam Information Centre. The Cercs Mines Museum.

 

Porrón (glass wine jar with tapered drinking spout). Baells Dam Information Centre. The Cercs Mines Museum.

 

El porrón is a clean and friendly way to drink wine at festive occasions. Highly typical in Catalonia, it is still found in many Catalan homes even today. In Catalonia it was also used to measure quantities of wine and milk, as they were all made to the same size.

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