Great new wines from ancient lands
Its spread westward across Europe is commemorated in places such as Minervois in the Languedoc — named for Minerva, goddess of wisdom, the area was first planted by the Romans some 2,500 years ago.
But that’s only half the story. The ancient Romans and Greeks had in turn learned their taste for wine and the know-how to make it from civilisations further to the east — from Phoenicians in the eastern Mediterranean.
