User talk:Wubslin
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Happy editing! Drmies (talk) 22:14, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
Stronger wine?
[edit]Hi Wubslin... I can't find anything evidential on Pliny's claims regarding the strength of Falernian wine. But come to think of it, was it a claim supposed to demonstrate "strength", or simply an observation? No more than that? I found one or two references to the value of testing with fire, but the claim that Roman wines were demonstrably higher in alcohol than modern wines seems to be based on that passage in Pliny, and only that. Any ideas? Haploidavey (talk) 16:12, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- My (non-expert) understanding is that the strength of modern wines is more-or-less as high as you can go with fermentation. Let me have a think about it. Wubslin (talk) 16:16, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Please see Talk:Ancient Rome and wine#Strength of ancient wine. Thanks for raising it here. Wubslin (talk) 17:36, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Aha. That makes sense, thank you. So as far as I can tell, claims of higher alcohol content in ancient Roman wines are based on 2 assumptions, both inexact: 1) It was so alcoholic that it was usually watered down for drinking: and 2) that Pliny's flammable wine can only be explained by its much higher alcohol content. Who knows. No modern, scientific source seems to have challenged this. Thanks for removing the problem! Haploidavey (talk) 17:55, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Not at all. Thanks again. --Wubslin (talk) 18:27, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
- Aha. That makes sense, thank you. So as far as I can tell, claims of higher alcohol content in ancient Roman wines are based on 2 assumptions, both inexact: 1) It was so alcoholic that it was usually watered down for drinking: and 2) that Pliny's flammable wine can only be explained by its much higher alcohol content. Who knows. No modern, scientific source seems to have challenged this. Thanks for removing the problem! Haploidavey (talk) 17:55, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
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- Hello, User:GoldMiner24. I think you are mistaken. Please look again. --Wubslin (talk) 16:04, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorry I've already undone my revert. GoldMiner24 Talk 16:06, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Not at all, thanks for caring and for your speedy re-revert. --Wubslin (talk) 16:08, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
- Yeah, sorry I've already undone my revert. GoldMiner24 Talk 16:06, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
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Matt Tong alumni Bournemouth School
[edit]Hi, I note you undid an edit for this alumnus, partly because they are 'not notable'. Please explain.
The source by the way is me, as I was there, in the same year as him. Hishmacla (talk) 18:14, 10 February 2023 (UTC)