Dionysus and Wine!

   Loneliness? Sadness? Don’t be worry, take a glass of red wine and drink it, no matter how lonely you are, or just along at that moment, red wine is going to bring you a little of happiness in your life. Yes, because wine, especially red wine, is Gods’ drink. Do you know something about Roman and Greek mythology? If you don’t, shame on you! Roman and Greek mythology is so great and awesome that is going to blow your mind when you start to read about it. But in this case, let’s talk about red wine and how important was for Romans and Greeks; it was the perfect company for everything.

    For example, there was this God called Dionysos related with wine, according to Theoi.com, and it is said this:

“DIONYSOS (Dionysus) was the Olympian god of wine, vegetation, pleasure, festivity, and madness.”

     If you look for the myth you’re going to find this:

“Dionysos was a son of Zeus and the princess Semele of Thebes. During the course of her pregnancy, the god's jealous wife Hera tricked Semele into asking Zeus to appear before her in his full glory. Bound by oath, the god was forced to comply and she was consumed by the heat of his lightning-bolts. Zeus recovered their unborn child from her body, sewed him up in his own thigh, and carried him to term.”

     And Greek Mythology Pantheon says:

“Dionysus (Roman equivalent is Bacchus) was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. He was the most cheerful of the gods and one of the most beloved to the people.”

     Romans and Greeks were so crazy and their parties were so epic that they need a wine God to believe in, and their stories are plenty. They invented how enjoy wine. But there are some other myths about wine that we need to know about. Better Tasting wine says:

“Red wine has less calories than sweet wine.

      It is commonly perceived that sweet wine has more calories than dry (non-sweet) wine. Well, this depends. While true for rich sweet wine like Sauternes, this is false for a semi-sweet spatlese riesling.

     Calories come from alcohol as well as sugar content. A typical dry Cabernet Sauvignon from France has 13.5% alcohol which amount to ~160 calories per 6-ounce glass. A equivalent glass of a lightly sweet Moscato or a German Kabinett or a German Spatlese Riesling, due to its lower alcohol (6-9% abv) will have slightly lower calories despite its higher sugar content.”

     So you can see that wine has a lot of secrets and we don’t know all of them, but start to improve that and you’re going to see that you’re going to love wine for ever!