Everything about Chian Wine totally explained
Chian wine is wine from the
Greek island of
Chios. It was among the most prized wines of
classical antiquity, and, according to
Theopompus and Greek mythology, was the first
red wine, then called "black wine".==Greece==
Chian wine was exported in great quantities to
Athens starting around the
5th century BC, as attested by the large number of Chian
amphorae discovered in modern-day excavations there. It was later characterized by
Plutarch and
Athenaios as having been an expensive luxury good in
classical Greece, though they may have exaggerated somewhat, as inscriptions on excavated amphorae seem to suggest only a moderately expensive price of two
drachmas per
chous, versus about 2 to 10
obols per chous for local wine.
Athenaios also quotes
Hermippus praising Chian wine's quality in the
5th century BC,
and
Strabo some centuries later considered wine from the Chian district of Ariusium to be the finest in Greece.
Rome
Before the
1st century AD, Chian wine was rare and expensive in
Rome. It was mainly prescribed in small quantities for medical purposes, as was then often done with rare food and drink, and was otherwise considered an extreme luxury:
Horace, writing in the
1st century BC, had his character Nasidienus in the
Satires serve Chian wine at an excessively sumptuous dinner party. After about the 1st century AD it became more common at the increasingly lavish private and public festivities of Rome, as well as continuing to be well-regarded for medicinal purposes, and was ranked among the finest wines by
Galen and
Pliny.
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