[1282] See B. iii. c. 20. These wines are of little repute.
[1283] In Latium. See B. iii. c. 9.
[1284] From Graviscæ. See B. iii. c. 8.
[1285] See B. ii. c. 96, B. iii. c. 9, and B. xxxvi. c. 49.
[1286] The wines of Genoa are of middling quality only, and but little known.
[1287] Or “juicy” wine.
[1288] Now Beziers, in the south of France. The wines of this part are considered excellent at the present day. That of Frontignan grows in its vicinity. Fée is inclined to think, from Pliny’s remarks here, that the ancients and the moderns differed entirely in their notions as to what constitutes good or bad wine.
[1289] He means, beyond modern Provence, and Languedoc: districts famous for their excellent wines, more particularly the latter.
[1290] Fée deems all this quite incredible. Our English experience, however, tells us that it is by no means so; much of the wine that is drunk in this country is indebted for flavour as well as colour to anything but the grape.
[1291] The wines of modern Otranto are ordinarily of good quality.