Ancient and Modern Wine

[Memmia]

In the Balkans some people usually mix white wine with water when drinking large amounts, sometimes with soda water, then it is called spritzer.

I've only ever been able to drink wine diluted down with water or soda as neat wine gives me terrible heartburn, from the most expensive fine wine, to cheap plonk. My mother is exactly the same. We don't drink beer so we are a right pair of 'lightweights' :oops:
You can still get roaring drunk on dilute wine (if you really wanted to)but it takes ages and you are constantly going to the toilet :lol:

I don't think the Romans all got heartburn from drinking wine, so that's probably not the main reason they watered it down.