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Pompeii Is Famous for Its Ruins and Bodies, but What About Its Wine?

Pompeii Is Famous for Its Ruins and Bodies, but What About Its Wine? Pompeii 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 it is likely the Etruscans and colonizing Greeks promoted wine-making with domesticated grapes as early as 1000 BCE. Pompeii, preserved after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, sits within Campania on fertile volcanic soil with a temperate Mediterranean climate and reliable sources of water. Pliny the Elder, living in nearby Pompeii in 77 CE, wrote of the “vine-growing hills and noble wine of Campania,” and the poet Martial described vats dripping with grapes, and the “ridges Bacchus loved more than the hills of Nysa.”

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