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The history of civilization is in many ways the history of viniculture…
Some books for your library on wine and wine making:
Ancient Wine : The Search for the Origins of Viniculture by Patrick E. McGovern (traces the history of winemaking with insights drawn from archaeology, chemistry, gastronomy and the arts).
Vinum: The Story of Roman Wine by Stuart James Fleming (tells the history of Roman wine using a blend of classical literature, archaeology and vineyard science, and describing how the Romans perceived wine's significance in their everyday life at all levels of society…senator to slave).
Origins and Ancient History of Wine (Food and Nutrition in History and Anthropology) by P. MCGOVERN, Patrick McGovern, Stuart Fleming, Solomon Katz (presenting contemporary evidence for major revisions in our understanding of winemaking in antiquity regarding the domestication of the Vinifera grape, the wine trade, the iconography of ancient wine, and the analytical and archaeological challenges posed by ancient wines).
Wine: A Cultural History from around the World by Ed S. Milton (containing fascinating stories on the history of coffee, tea, wine, and olive oil covering the cultivation of the plants and the uses of their leaves and fruits in food, medicine, and rituals from the dawn of civilization to today).
And some links to get started on the reading:
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) "EPIGRAMS", BOOK IX (9.2)
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella "De Re Rustica" and "De Arboribus"
Gaius Plinius Secundus (The Elder Pliny) "Naturalis Historia" BOOK XIV
"The history of drinking: Uncorking the past" The Economist, Dec 20th 2001,
Roman food and drink by René Chartrand
