Old Wine, New Wine, New Wine Skins Old wine can be poured into new wineskins, but not the other way around. The scripture reads: “He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old one; otherwise they will tear both, and the piece from the new will not match the old. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new [fermenting] wine will [expand and] burst the skins and it will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.” Luke 5:36-39 Why can we not pour new wine into old wineskins? The wine ferments as it is stored in the wine-skins, releasing carbon dioxide. The fermentation process causes the wine-skin to expand constantly and stretches it causing it to lose its elasticity eventually and become hard. New wine has only begun its fermentation process therefore it will release greater pressure on the ol...