The best wine

[Vibius Tiberius Costa]

This topic coincides with CiceroD's a bit, but was one particular wine/vintage known amongst Romans for being the best, the hills of pompeii for example or gaulish wine?

 

vtc

Edited September 8, 2007 by Vibius Tiberius Costa

[Bryaxis Hecatee]

The best wine ever for the roman was the Falerian of the consulate L. (?) Oppimius, still drunk up to Nero's time if I remember well, an information given by many authors including Pliny

[Vibius Tiberius Costa]

Thank you Bryaxis Hecatee.

 

vtc

[Flavia Gemina]

The best wine ever for the roman was the Falerian of the consulate L. (?) Oppimius, still drunk up to Nero's time if I remember well, an information given by many authors including Pliny

 

Little spelling correction: it's FalerNian (with an 'N') from a region just northwest of Naples. Interestingly, it was a white wine, described by one ancient writer as 'amber' in colour.

 

Flavia

[Vibius Tiberius Costa]

When was the wine first available from and where did you get it from and how much did it cost? *breathe*

 

vtc

[ASCLEPIADES]

This topic coincides with CiceroD's a bit, but was one particular are known amongst Romans for being the best, the hills of pompeii for example or gaulish wine?

 

vtc

Here is the top-ten of Gaius Plinius Secundus Maior, something like a Roman version of Aristotle:

(Naturalis Historia,Libri XIV, Ch. II, "XCI varieties of wine"):

 

1. "The very highest rank is given to the Aminean grape, on account of the body and durability of its wine, which improves with old age."

 

2. "The second rank belongs to the vines of Nomentum, the wood of which is red, from which circumstance the vines have received from some the name of "rubell

[Gaius Paulinus Maximus]

When was the wine first available from and where did you get it from and how much did it cost? *breathe*

 

vtc

 

 

 

Under the Empire the ordinary qualities of wine were cheap enough to be sold at three or four cents a quart ;according to Horace the choicer kinds were very costly indeed, entirely beyond the reach of a man in his circumstances.