The legendary Hippocrates considered wine a full-fledged medicine. He prescribed it as a diuretic, antipyretic and antiseptic. Many ancient philosophers have argued about wine and predilection for him. For example, Plato believed that to 40 years it should be drunk very moderately. And then you can start all the hard, because the more a person grows old, the more his character spoils, and the wine helps to get rid of excessive bickering.
The first table toast, pronounced by the owners, refers to those ancient times when wine was used for malicious purposes - for example, to poison enemies. Saying the words "your health!" And the first to drink your glass, the owner as it shows that he does not have malicious intent and the drink is not poisoned.
In ancient Rome, only men could drink wine. Drunk in a drunken woman, a husband could punish at his discretion, even kill. Then this severe law was abolished and introduced the usual practice of divorce.
Proper storage of wine at home is difficult, because it needs a temperature of at least 10° and not more than 14 °C
A true connoisseur of wine will never hold a glass for a bowl. After all, then it will warm up from the heat of the hand and the drink will change the taste.
