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This week’s Wine Word of the Week is Bacchus.
Official definition from Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine:
Bacchus is the common name in Ancient Rome for the classical god of wine whom the Greeks called Bacchos but, more usually, Dionysus.
Layman’s terms from Kori:
Bacchus is the Roman god of wine.
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