
Wine in history: St Vincent of Zaragoza
With this year’s St Vincent’s Day approaching on Sunday, Stuart Walton tells the story of St Vincent of Zaragoza…
ByStuart Walton has been writing on wine and food, as well as aspects of cultural history, since 1991. His books include Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication (2001), and Humanity: An Emotional History (2004).
With this year’s St Vincent’s Day approaching on Sunday, Stuart Walton tells the story of St Vincent of Zaragoza…
By Stuart WaltonIn a festive column, Stuart Walton looks back through history at the many ways in which wine has been…
By Stuart WaltonFrom the “gaily debauched citizens of Locri’ in seventh-century BCE Greece, to the misconceived project of Prohibition, Stuart Walton…
By Stuart WaltonWe know that Cleopatra was a woman of “capacious and unabashed appetites,” says Stuart Walton. But which wines were…
By Stuart WaltonForget sanitized modern versions, a true harvest festival is a wild and unbridled celebration of the culmination of the…
By Stuart WaltonWine was a gift of the gods in most antique Mediterranean civilizations, says Stuart Walton. And for those of…
By Stuart WaltonDiscontent with wine tax was one of the catalysts for the French Revolution, says Stuart Walton, who wonders if…
By Stuart WaltonWine has long been thought to have medicinal properties, says Stuart Walton, who looks at the ways in which…
By Stuart Walton