Wine, the drink of men and gods

Having appeared eight thousand years ago, wine conquered the greatest civilizations of Antiquity. For the Roman world, the vine produced two main categories of wines. The first corresponds to those for everyday consumption used during banquets and festivals in honor of Bacchus. These wines are served diluted with water and flavored with honey, resins, or macerated plants or fruits. Their incomparable flavors and the intoxication they provide make them the symbol of earthly pleasures. The second category corresponds to pure wines reserved for religious rituals, libations, dedicated to Jupiter.
Pure wine is both a sacred product whose use is reserved for men (priests, magistrates, pater familias), for libations to Jupiter, as a remedy, and also an intoxicating drink which plays the role of a luxury drug in the heart of an aristocratic society.