Given our obvious enthusiasm for the effects of alcohol, we were a bit taken aback by a recent New York Times piece extolling the virtues of half-bottles of wine. Apparently there are people out there for whom a regular ol’ 750-mL bottle of wine is too much to split with a loved one—the writer includes […]
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The Scourge of Wine
January 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Tags:alcohol·ancient history·Cleomenes·Herodotus·Sparta·wine