Wine and the intellect: The drink for smart people?
How did wine get its status as the drink for intellectuals?
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Liberality, quality, festivity: Wine in the French Revolution
The simplistic view of the French Revolution is of a period of chaos and extremism, but that was far from…
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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 and…
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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 used…
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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 looks…
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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 fit…
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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 us…
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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 taxes…
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