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Mūsdienu profesionālie oinologi pievērsušies antīkajai dzeršanai un visu noskaidrojuši:
•Could the delicious wine that Odysseus gave the Cyclops have really been simultaneously sweet and high-alcohol? (Answer: no.)
•What is or are the Pramnian wines of Iliad 11 and Odyssey 10, and why are they served sprinkled with goat’s cheese, barley, and honey? (Answer: Like the colloquial use of the word champagne to describe almost any sparkling wine, “Pramnian” is a generic term for a type of high-alcohol wine, rather than the name of a wine that comes from a particular locale—but unlike Champagne, whose name memorializes its region of origin, Pramnian wines were produced in several different regions.)
•If Hesiod knew the method of producing homemade sweet wine from grapes, how is it that—despite his poverty—he also drank imported biblinos wine, which came from Phoenicia or Thrace? (Answer: Actually, he was probably drinking homemade biblinos wine he produced himself from biblinos grapes growing on the slopes of Mount Helicon.)
Stavroula Kourakou-Dragona, Vine and Wine in the Ancient Greek World. Athens: Foinikas Publications, 2015. |