- "In fact, in his Natural Historia, Plinio (2010), Pliny distinguishes up to four types of wine based on their colour: albus (pale white), fulvus (reddish-yell

- "In fact, in his Natural Historia, Plinio (2010), Pliny distinguishes up to four types of wine based on their colour: albus (pale white), fulvus (reddish-yellow), sanguineus (blood red), and niger (black). The wine acquires these colours after the fermentation process and through its storage." Direct link if anyone was curious https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59131/pg59131-images.html https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59131/pg59131-images.ht... - "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FRUIT-TREES" - "The nature of the vine. Its mode of fructification | The nature of the grape, and the cultivation of the vine | Ninety-one varieties of the vine | Remarkable facts connected with the culture of the vine | The most ancient wines | The nature of wines | Fifty kinds of generous wines | Thirty-eight varieties of foreign wine | Seven kinds of salted wines | Eighteen varieties of sweet wine. Raisin-wine and hepsema | Three varieties of second-rate wine | At what period generous wines were first commonly made in Italy | The inspection of wine ordered by King Romulus | Wines drunk by the ancient Romans | Some remarkable facts connected with wine-lofts. The Opimian wine | At what period four kinds of wine were first served at table | The uses of the wild vine. What juices are naturally the coldest of all | Sixty-six varieties of artificial wine | Hydromeli, or melicraton | Oxymeli | Twelve kinds of wine with miraculous properties | What wines it is not lawful to use in the sacred rites | How must is usually prepared | Pitch and resin | Vinegar—lees of wine | Wine-vessels—wine-cellars | Drunkenness | Liquors with the strength of wine made from water and corn"