how about the greeks

[Randy Caparoso]

Had some lovely, if edgy, wines in a fabulous Greek restaurant called Milos in Manhattan last year.

But I can't help thinking: Was it a coincidence that the Greek civilization was soon surpassed by that of the Romans'? Must have been the wine. I recently read that when Pompeii was buried, there were something like 200 wine bars lost to the world. And truly, no Greek wine then or now could be described, in the words of Trimalchio in Petronius's Satyricon: "Falernian from the year of Opimius's consulship, a hundred years in the bottle... Alas that wine should live longer than we wretched men!" Dose Italians!


[This message has been edited by Randy Caparoso (edited 05-30-2000).]