Before artificial sweeteners, people satisfied their cravings for sweetness with natural products, including honey or dried fruit. Raisin wines, made by drying grapes before fermentation, were ...

From a modern, scientific perspective, the wine Romans drank is often seen as an inconsistent, poorly made, and thoroughly unpleasant beverage. It is alleged that Roman winemakers had to mask their ...

It is no secret that the Romans were heavy wine drinkers. Estimates put the average Roman male’s consumption at a litre or more of diluted wine per day. The drink was also a symbol of civilised ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dolia defossa wine cellar of Villa Regina (Boscoreale). Emlyn Dodd, courtesy Ministero della Cultura – Parco Archaeologico di ...

Historians know the ancient Romans drank a lot of wine, with some estimates as high as one liter of diluted wine each day—far more than most of us drink in the 21st century. But while wine’s central ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have revealed how Roman wine would have looked, smelled ...

Ancient Roman wine has long been seen as a simpler, rougher version of what we drink today. But new research suggests the opposite. By studying how Romans fermented and stored wine in massive clay ...

Unlike the highly-mechanized processes of the modern wine industry, Georgian vintners still employ a rustic approach. Grapes are crushed by hand or foot, placed in egg-shaped vessels known as qvevri, ...

The world’s oldest bottle of wine was recently discovered in an ancient Roman burial site in southern Spain, according to a study published this week. The wine remains in a glass funeral urn inside an ...

A new chemical and microscopic analysis of Pompeii residues documents a sacrificial rite that had only been previously described by ancient Roman writers and artists. Reading time 3 minutes The ...

It is no secret that the Romans were heavy wine drinkers. Estimates put the average Roman male's consumption at a liter or more of diluted wine per day. The drink was also a symbol of civilized ...