[SunkenCiv]

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

[skr]

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

[MuttTheHoople]

Any chillable red box wine?

[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

[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.”

[Larry Lucido]

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

[Cvengr]

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