Pompeii is famous for its ruins and bodies, but what about its wine?
- Written by Emlyn Dodd, Greece Fellow, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment, Macquarie University
Vines in the Foro Boario vineyard and the amphitheatre, PompeiiEmlyn Dodd, Author providedPompeii is famed for plaster-cast bodies, ruins, frescoes and the rare snapshot it provides of a rather typical ancient Roman city. But less famous is its evidence of viticulture.
Wild grapevines probably existed across peninsular Italy since prehistory, but...
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