English wine cask units the mediæval French and Italian "botte") or pipe was half a tun, or 1008 pints. Tradition has it that George, Duke of Clarence, the brother of Edward IV of England, was drowned in a butt of malmsey on 18 February 1478. (However, Josephine Tey in "The Daughter of Time" suggests that "drowned in a butt of malmsey" means rather that George, Duke of Clarence, drank himself to death rather than literally drowning in a container of wine.) In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado", the narrator claims he has received "a pipe of what passes for Amontillado".
Wine of Morning from the "National Evangelical Film Foundation". Wine of Morning was Katherine Helmond's movie debut. Wine of Morning in the Internet Movie Database (English) Wine of Morning on www.unusualfilms.com Wine of Morning Wine of Morning is an American feature film from 1955 and has Barabbas as the subject, who was pardoned according to the Biblical report in place of Jesus Christ by Pontius Pilate. The film is based on the novel Wine of Morning by Bob Jones Jr and directed by Katherine Stenholm. On a stormy voyage Barabbas writes a letter to his friend Stephen and remembers his time in Galilean