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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bruthajoe, post: 8046524, member: 108656&quot;]The popularity of wine is questionable in times when the possibility of drought and famine compelled societies to focus tremendous amounts of energy on sustaining the simplest resources we now take for granted. It seems a luxury such as wine should not have been so popular when it was a daily undertaking to simply collect potable water. Food must have been fresh and gathered regularly, for there was no refrigeration. I believe it the was the necessity of regularly consuming spoiled or &quot;fermented&quot; food products that gave rise to the reliable, long lasting drink. The tradition has carried on through the centuries and even in modern times. When shelf life is of little concern we still consume the fermented juice regularly for its toxic side effects, because wine not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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