Wine Drinking in the Greek Islands

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 23, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 49.

Wine Drinking in the Greek Islands

ONE by one the pleasing old delusions about sobriety in wine-drinking countries have to be given up. If any place in the world could have the full benefit of real wine, good wine, and a steady supply, it would surely be the islands of the Greek archipelago. They have been famous for their vintages for thirty centuries. But Anacreon was not by any means the last of the topers of the islands. We read that on certain saints' days, the whole male population will be drunk. The wives, not being allowed to eat and drink with their masters, are saved from this.—Sel.