editorial: baco's nectar

Frascati is an Italian white wine from the region and city of Frascati. The district is the countryside of the ancient, pre-Roman city of Tusculum.

All Roman legends, literature and popular traditions concerning wine begin and end with Frascati, which

is surely one of the best known, most celebrated and mythologized wines in the world. The list of tributes and citations is so long that it puts the literature of other wines to shame. The city's famous taverns -

there were already 1022 in 1450 - were nearly all owned by producers of Frascati wine, who leased

them out under contracts resembling the modern franchising agreements of bar, restaurants and fastfood chains.

I focused on the red wine to show that in Frascati the few taverns that still resist the invasion of modernity produce also a delicious red nectar, less famous than the white one but not for this reason less worthy of consideration.

This series was shot in 2008.