History of Wine

If there was a Last Supper, what would the wine have been like?

I apologize if this gets asked every year at this time. :-)

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Young Martle
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DaleW wrote on Sat, 3 Apr 2010 13:08:49 -0700 (PDT):

Even high class Roman wines could not have been matured very well before the invention of the cork and I doubt that the seder wine for a not very wealthy bunch of Palestinians would have been very great.

I'm no expert on wine history but I do wonder how Roman wines really tasted, even the Falernian they raved about. I'm told Roman taste in wine was not very sophisticated and they liked to mix it with honey and other things. Of course, they originally worried about drunkenness and would dilute it with water. Didn't Cicero sneer that Cataline was very self-indulgent in drinking wine mixed with less than 50% water?

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James Silverton

Not based any knowledge of wine making for that time, I was think Madeira.

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Young Martle

cwdjrxyz wrote on Sun, 4 Apr 2010 12:24:36 -0700 (PDT):

Thanks to everyone for the interesting information on wine history and also the references. I know the stories about the origin of the Greek taste for Retsina but I've only tried the stuff twice and I don't intend to try again :-)

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James Silverton

May I ask why you tried it the 2nd time? :-)

Retsina is not available where I live but I would have to try it no matter what horror stories I've heard.

If it is so terrible, who is drinking this stuff? Are there foods that make it palatable?

Inquiring minds want to know.

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Young Martle

Ed wrote on Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:00:02 -0500:

I tried it the second time about a year after the first time to make sure my first impressions were correct. Alas, I'll never meet the wonderful stuff you describe :-(

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James Silverton

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