How Pompeii brought ancient Roman wine back to life

The Local (Italy) ^ | February 25, 2016 | Patrick Browne

[SunkenCiv]

Roman wine being brought back to life in Pompeii. Photo: Piero Mastrobeardino

[SunkenCiv]

[skr]

Don’t know much about wine-making but very interesting.

[MuttTheHoople]

Any chillable red box wine?

[knarf]

Looks like Pompeii was divinely adjudicated

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

“...grown using identical techniques and grow from the same soil the city’s wine-makers exploited until Vesuvius buried the city and its inhabitants in AD 79.”

Aren’t the ancient wine-makers now part of the soil?

[teeman8r]

This will not end well for pompeii... The gods are not amused

[DCBryan1]

wine ping

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I read that Vesuvius erupted to punish Pompeii for worshipping phalluses.

Pompeii was so raunchy then it would make Vegas look like an Amish village.

[teeman8r]

One might say they were destined for premature eradication.

[Sirius Lee]

Aren’t the ancient wine-makers now part of the soil?

Yes, that's what give the wine its unique terroir.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting!

[AndyJackson]

Oh common. These days Vegas isn’t “raunchy.” It’s just tasteless, sort of like the boardwalk at Ocean City. For the most part it is overpriced boring schlock. The only reason it isn’t truly family friendly is that it is so dull that you are driven to do drugs as an escape from it all.

[Western Phil]

From the article: “Pliny the Elder, a Roman author, wrote that it was common to find drowned mice which had fallen into wine-filled dolia. Should this happen, he suggested the best course of action was to extract the marinated mouse and roast it straight away.”

[SunkenCiv]

“Superintendent Parrot *ate* one of those...”

[SunkenCiv]

Let's add the Digest ping, make this the weekly topic.

[Larry Lucido]

So, one day, Yellowstone will be the new wine country!

[txhurl]

The pumice in the soil was inhabitable to the phloxera louse that destroyed Europe’s vines... Pompeii has vines 500 years old.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

From the site of the other great Mediterranian volcanic eruption:

http://zesterdaily.com/drinking/santorini-greek-wine-industry/

“The soil is volcanic ash, with some pumice and other stones, but there is no organic matter, and it is astonishing that anything grows at all. There is no irrigation — the vines depend on sea mist for moisture and can also tap some water retained by the pumice stones after occasional rains.....The island is immune to the destructive insect phylloxera, for if there is no clay, there can be no phylloxera.”

[Cvengr]

Looks like ‘79 (AD) wasn’t a very good year for Pompeiian wine.