From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
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   > On 10/6/25 16:13, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >> There is currently some interest in "natural wines" made in the   
   >> pre-Pasteur   
   >> manner and they are different and extremely variable quality.  I don't   
   >> know   
   >> how an 18th century wine is different from a first century wine but I   
   >> would   
   >> like to find out.   
   >>   
   >> And just what IS Falernian wine?   
   >> --scott   
   >   
   >      Mr.Dorsey don't you ever do web searches?   
   >> Falernian was a strong white wine popular in the classical Roman   
   >> period, produced from Aglianico grapes on > the slopes of Mount   
   >> Falernus near the border of Latium and Campania. Wikipedia   
   >   
   >      And it is still available in Italy today as Falerno I read   
   > in a note adjacent to my search.   
      
   You are correct.   
      
   While the mountain is now called Monte Massico, they do grow grapes   
   under the "Falerno del Massico" appellation.   
      
   On the other hand Oxford says that Massic wine was grown on the slopes   
   of Monte Massico, which sounds reasonable.  Perhaps the two styles were   
   grown in the same area.   
      
   When I read this I was eager to get a bottle, but alas, this is a red   
   wine while the classical Falernian was white. As was Massic.   
      
   Same soil, but not the same wine.   
      
   Actually, this site:   
      
   https://www.winespectator.com/articles/the-cult-wine-of-121-bc-44663   
      
   has more on the wine.  It also says  that the wine might have been red,   
   and might have been 16 percent, both of which I doubt.  But there are   
   some fascinating details here.   
      
   William Hyde   
      
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