The author chooses the amphoras used in the context of contemporary archaeology to be the focal point of her discussion on commerce and the economy. By the second century, and especially at the end of the Roman Republican period, vineyards were developed in Italy along the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts. The production of amphoras is the best witness of this process of intensive viticulture, which is differentiated by the types of amphoras produced on either coast. The most important era of importation of wine from Italy to Gaul dates from the late third century up until, and shortly after, the conquest of Caesar. The first imports were carried in the so-called Greco-Italic amphoras, which are known from 15 shipwrecks in the western Mediterranean. Italian wine was distributed throughout Gaul, except perhaps in northern Belgium, among the Nervian tribe.