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To: SunkenCiv

The wine drank by the Greeks and Romans was actually pretty bad and usually had water added - basically the equivalent of lite beer.


11 posted on 04/06/2022 8:46:48 AM PDT by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: Clemenza

Mingling water and wine had more to do with making the water safe to drink, but was a common enough practice to show up in the Odyssey. If they were concerned about how wine tasted, the Greeks wouldn’t to this day have Retsina as the national drink. ;^)


12 posted on 04/06/2022 8:55:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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