Wine That Built the Roman Empire: Master of Wine Joel Butler on Ancient Rome’s Lost Vintages

Podcast: The Vintage Passport · Noah Tetzner

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

What did the Romans actually have in their cups? Joel Butler, one of the first two US-resident Masters of Wine (a title he earned in 1990), joins host Noah Tetzner to explore the wine culture that spread across an empire and still shapes the bottle on your table today. Joel is co-author, with biblical historian Randall Heskett, of Divine Vintage: Following the Wine Trail from Genesis to the Modern Age, winner of the 2012 Gourmand International UK Best Wine Book Award. He also wrote the entry on the Roman Empire for the Sage Encyclopedia of Alcohol, and has spent...