Until around the early 1990s, places in central Rome such as Il Vinaietto and L’Angolo Divino near Campo de’ Fiori, Il Goccetto on Via dei Banchi Vecchi and Il Piccolo in the shadow of Piazza Navona functioned as bulk wine shops. You’d show up with your own bottle and have it filled straight from the cask, shell out a few lire, and be on your way. For me, as a young student in Rome back then, the ability to drink wine on a budget was a revelation.