[Red Badger]

Pine Wine PinGGG!............

[Adder]

Use pitch to flavor wine?

I guess if you want it to suck...

[MiddleEarth]

It’s still B.C. and A.D. no matter how they insist that it isn’t.

[Seruzawa]

I’ll drink to that!

[FLT-bird]

It would be interesting to make some and see how it tastes.

[Fiji Hill]

...in 1–2 century BCE BC, part of the late Greco-Italic period.

FIFY

[married21]

A friend of mine who is part Greek told me this kind of pine-flavored wine tastes terrible. Wikipedia:

Retsina (Greek: Ρετσίνα) is a Greek white (or rosé) resinated wine, which has been made for at least 2,000 years. Its unique flavor is said to have originated from the practice of sealing wine vessels, particularly amphorae, with Aleppo Pine resin in ancient times. Before the invention of impermeable glass bottles, oxygen caused many wines to spoil within the year. Pine resin helped keep air out, while infusing the wine with resin aroma. The Romans began to use barrels in the 3rd century AD, removing any oenological necessity for resin, but the flavor itself was so popular that the style is still widespread today.

[pepsi_junkie]

So for the perishable items they used locally sourced goods and for the non-perishable items they imported from other regions where they are more plentiful.

Logical, not surprising but the techniques used to show it are interesting.

[butlerweave]

Ask Nancy if she can remember how it tastes

[mairdie]

Sixth great grandfather’s 1769 article on growing grapes and making wine. They plugged the jar hole with dung. YUCK! But he won an award for the first acceptable wine grown here, so I guess dung worked.

An ESSAY on the cultivation of the VINE,
and the making and preserving of Wine, 1769
http://iment.com/maida/familytree/antill/edwardgrapesarticle.htm