I always dilute red wine with water. I didn’t know that makes me a non-barbarian. Hmmm.
Ya filthy heathen!
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The Greeks drank it that way because it more or less sanitized the water. The Greek national drink is Retsina, wine with pine resin. The Mycenaeans also enjoyed his (based on archaeological remains), as well as a mixture of beer, wine, and mead. A friend of mine tested it, found the ratio was 3:2:1 or 4:2:1, this was just with wine I believe, rather than retsina.