A Tin Glaze Wine Bin Label for Bucellas, London (possibly Mortlake, Sanders), circa 1760-70, of p

A Tin Glaze Wine Bin Label for Bucellas, London (possibly Mortlake, Sanders), circa 1760-70, of pentagonal shape, the arched top pierced for suspension, inscribed BUCELLAS in manganese-purple, 14cm wide, 8cm high; and A Wedgwood Pottery Wine Bin Label, circa 1780-1800, similarly shaped to the preceding, part glazed and with overglaze inscription (now deteriorated) possibly MONTPELIER, impressed WEDGWOOD, 14.5cm wide, 7.8cm high (2) Once wine could be stored in bottles, bins made of brick and stone were built in cellars for the purpose of storage, and tin glaze examples such as this were popular because they could resist damp. Bucelas (historically known as Bucellas) is a Portuguese wine, once described as Portuguese Hock from a region just north of Lisbon. Historically a white wine, during the Elizabethan age it was popular amongst the English as a fortified wine. Wine historians consider that this wine was likely the same `charneco` wine mentioned by William Shakespeare in the play Henry VI Part II (with Charneco being a local village in the Bucelas region).