208: Tim Mondavi

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2014

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Tim Mondavi is a founding partner of Continuum Estate in the Napa Valley, where he is the head winemaker.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala discusses the uses of wine as medicine.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, You might hear in my voice that I'm a little bit sick this week, but being
0:29.5	under the weather it got me thinking about wine's use in medicine.
0:33.0	Today we think of wine as a recreational drink,
0:36.0	as a commodity to enjoy on its own, or with a meal.
0:39.0	But there were times in our past
0:41.0	when wine was once considered a medicinal beverage.
0:45.8	Egyptians were using wine as medicine by 3,000 AD.
0:49.5	Sumerian clay tablets show wine was stocked in ancient pharmacies. In ancient Greece,
0:55.0	Pliny the Elder wrote, In Vino Sanites, or in wine there is health.
1:00.0	Good thing I have plenty of wine around.
1:04.0	Hippocrates used wine to cure fevers and also prescribed it as a digestive aid.
1:09.6	If you had jaundice, rheumatism, or anemia, he'd be recommending a wine similar to Vermouth, a wine that
1:16.7	had wormwood bark soaked in it.
1:19.8	The ancient Romans were using wine to cure depression and memory loss.
1:24.0	Cato had many medicinal suggestions for wine.
1:27.0	Got tapworms, mixed wine with some pomegranates.
1:31.0	Got gout?
1:32.0	Throw some juniper flowers or myrtle flowers into your
1:35.0	wine. Second century AD Dr Galen had some wine remedy suggestions as well.
1:41.0	If you are hurt in a gladiator fight, he'd use wine to clean
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