[Sca-cooks] Danelaw feast - Take Two

[Volker Bach]

Am Sonntag, 17. Juli 2005 21:46 schrieb Carole Smith:
> Wasn't there a wine trade in England on the earlier side?  It is my
> understanding that when the weather got colder (more or less corresponding
> to Elizabethan times) that they could no longer grow wine grapes and became
> dependant on wine from other countries.

I don't know about Anglo-Saxon times, but wine was grown in England later in 
the Middle Ages. If nothing else, it would have been necessary for Eucharist. 
Nonetheless, wine was imported from France in quantity, so it can't have been 
all that much, or all that good.

Giano 


	

	
		
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