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From Ancient Greek and medieval strictures on serving sizes, to modern anxieties about serving temperature, Stuart Walton negotiates the elaborate history of wine etiquette. The wine…
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Stuart Walton explores the long European tradition of drinking unfinished wine shortly after harvest—a practice rich in cultural significance.…
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Throughout human history, wine and other libations have been central to ceremonies and rituals marking the passage from this…
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Stuart Walton examines the culture of alcoholic excess in Late Georgian England, when heavy drinking was considered a manly…
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Stuart Walton casts an historical eye over wine’s use as an aphrodisiac, from the Greek symposium to the findings…
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In his second Wine in History column, Stuart Walton explores the role of alcohol as a tool of diplomacy.…
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In the first of a new series of columns exploring wine at pivotal moments in social and cultural history,…
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The preeminent paradigm of pleasure: How the Greeks liked to drink and think The fact that the symposion, the…
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A feast for the eyes and mind, if not the stomach There can be few more obvious intersections of…
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