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How I uncovered a potential ancient Rome wine scam (phys.org)
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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ea-nāṣir the Roman version

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Indeed,lest we forget

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't think they replaced the sun-dried raisins with honey, otherwise the honey taste would be a bit too strong, too obvious. Instead my guess is that they used it as an additive in the final product, if the resulting passum was too dry. Because:

  1. As the text mentions, there's a shortcut for making passum - to boil the must instead*. If the issue was space, time, or labour they'd likely do it instead of relying on yet another parallel culture.
  2. Grape sugar content might vary quite a bit from one harvest to another. And yet it you're doing large scale production you want some consistency.

*you can do this at home with some grape juice. Even the unfermented version is delicious, it becomes syrupy (andgreat on vanilla ice cream).