Dominic Sandbrook

And obviously wine has a very different place in Islamic culture than it does in Christian.

Quirky.

Slippers, what happens to like Billy Bunter?

That seems like a very peculiar punishment.

Dorm feasts.

Yeah, having feasts and stealing jam and stuff.

Wine drinking does persist though, no?

Yeah.

Partly because there are moments in the Quran where wine is described in a more positive way.

So bad news for lightweights, but good news for the rest of us.

If you know, you know.

So we did an episode about the golden age of Baghdad, didn't we?

And Baghdad at its peak, its kind of medieval peak, there are loads of taverns serving wine.

But interestingly, they're run not by Muslims, but by Christians.

So the wine trade is monopolized by Christians, right?

Yeah.

All right.

So let's take a break and we'll come back after the break to delve deeper into the limitless bottle of wine history.

Welcome back to The Rest is History and you have not yet drunk your fill because we have talked about four of the key moments in the history of wine from prehistory to the present, and we have three to go.

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