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  • The Calix Imperium - Drink like an emperor!

    Viggen

    By Viggen

    Have you noticed that a drink tastes better when it matches what you are drinking it from? Instant coffee seems natural enough in a plastic disposable cup, but its practically sacrilege to drink Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee that way. Likewise, to be fully appreciated, fine whisky and wines need a correspondingly fine drinking vessel. In our household this philosophy has led to the death of much expensive crystal , since alcohol and fragile glassware are not an ideal combination.

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    Well, an outfit called Calix Imperium has sent me the answer. Calix is the Latin for "cup", from which we get the English "chalice". While the Greek kylix from which the word ultimately derives was a broad, shallow pottery vessel, the Calix Imperium offering is tall, deep, and made of sturdy pewter...

     

    ...read the full review of the Roma Victrix Beaker


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    A comment sent to me by the makers of the Calix which give some additional information. "A few points I would like to make. In regard to panel detail the Centurion's shield blazon was based on the design found on the Arch at Arausio, and as you know it has been generally (if unofficially) acknowledged that it is quite plausible that this design belonged to Legio II Augusta, especially as there was a veteran colony of the legion established there. The so-called armour scales on the base are supposed to be a triumphal laurel wreath. You can even see the berries in the centre of each leaf, also the retaining bands holding it together. By the way the title of the beaker is Roma Victrix.'
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