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What type of wine would they have drank during the 1st Century BC?
Other than magical Jesus water wine... What modern wines are most like the ancient wine?
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Really good question. Wine has been around for thousands of years back to the ancient times and was very common around the turn of the Millennium. This is why there are so many ancient rituals tied to wine, mostly red wine (resemblance to blood), in Christianity (Jesus turning water to wine) and Judaism drinking wine on holy holidays.
The technology was less sophisticated, but in terms of crushing grapes and fermenting the wine, the varieties are similar to what we still have today (though that would be very very aged). Wikipedia usually isn't a great source, but I found a fantastic page of Ancient Rome and Wine, which would be what dominated the Western world at the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine
The technology was less sophisticated, but in terms of crushing grapes and fermenting the wine, the varieties are similar to what we still have today (though that would be very very aged). Wikipedia usually isn't a great source, but I found a fantastic page of Ancient Rome and Wine, which would be what dominated the Western world at the time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine
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