Friday 23 October 2009
Wine in France - it's all Greek to me
According to a Cambridge Study, France's passion for wine may have originated from the Ancient Greeks.Prof Paul Cartledge says the original makers of Côtes-du-Rhône descended from Greek explorers who settled in southern France about 2500 years ago. So much for the theory that it was the Romans who were responsible for bringing viticulture to France.
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