Production of wine and anecdotes: damned booze and drunk to death

Curious: Pope Gregor XI. noted 1373 praising the Viennese wine. Äneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II.) wondered at the gigantic consummation and trade of wine in Vienna. For a meal there were calculated 3 liters of wine. Abraham a Santa Clara damned the dissolute life. The crop in 1456 was such a bad quality of wine, the Vienneses poured this hooch out on the streets,  and emperor Friedrich III. disposed this "present of God" for use in mortar for the building the tower of St.Stephan's cathedral. 1499 it is noted authentically, that "many died, because they drunk to death".

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