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…
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Stuart Walton
Stuart 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).
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Wine in history: The gift of wine
In a festive column, Stuart Walton looks back through history at the many ways in which wine has been…
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Wine in history: Pleasure, debauchery, and sumptuary laws
From the “gaily debauched citizens of Locri’ in seventh-century BCE Greece, to the misconceived project of Prohibition, Stuart Walton…
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Wine in history: Drinking with Cleopatra
We know that Cleopatra was a woman of “capacious and unabashed appetites,” says Stuart Walton. But which wines were…
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Ecstasy at the harvest festival: Wine in history
Forget sanitized modern versions, a true harvest festival is a wild and unbridled celebration of the culmination of the…
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The origin myths of wine
Wine was a gift of the gods in most antique Mediterranean civilizations, says Stuart Walton. And for those of…
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Wine in history: A tax on pleasure
Discontent with wine tax was one of the catalysts for the French Revolution, says Stuart Walton, who wonders if…
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Wine in history: Medicinal properties
Wine has long been thought to have medicinal properties, says Stuart Walton, who looks at the ways in which…
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