Q: I honestly find it hard to believe. Five or six bottles of wine… up to fifteen per person in one sitting? That's a lot by our standards!GM: It makes me wonder, too. Our ancestors must have had superpowers to handle so much wine. Wine had to flow through their veins, being their blood, part of their DNA – quite literally so. I guess we've got some catching up to do!
Though, also, it could be something to do with the quality of wine itself. In his 1856 book of adventures in Georgia, Alexandre Dumas observes that here more wine is consumed than anywhere in the world, adding that "God has endowed Georgians with wine of the kind that intoxicates without hitting one in the head." This last point is interesting and certainly merits further exploration...
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