jan 1, 170 - The greatest wine tasting event in history.
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One of the greatest wine tastings in history took place around 170 C.E. in the imperial cellars in Rome. Here, at the center of the known world, was the finest collection of wines available anywhere, a collection built up by successive emperors for whom cost was no object. In the damp wine cellars set Galen, personal physician to the emperor Marcus Aurelius, on a personal mission to find the best wine in the world.(pg. 81)
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