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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

When was the first known reference to a specific wine vintage? ...and... How old was the wine being “reviewed”?

~Roman Historian Pliny the Elder rated 121 B.C. as a vintage “of the highest excellence.”
~200 years old! Pliny the Elder wrote the history of the Roman Empire around 70 A.D.