Porrón is a traditional wine pitcher found throughout Spain. The home to the oldest known porrón, made between the 14th and 15th centuries, is Tarragona in Catalonia region.
While similar to Italian wine decanters, Spanish porróns are more directly related to their ancestors, the rhyton, from the ancient Roman times. It is believed that they were invented as a hygienic way of drinking, in order to avoid infections and diseases, since there is no need for contact between the object and the mouth because of the jet-stream created by the spout.