Pindar praises Ancient wine and modern songs. And Eubulus says— Inconsistent it seems for a fair one to praise Old wine, and to say that such never can cloy; But bring her a man who has seen his best days, And she'd rather put up with a whiskerless boy. And Alexis says very nearly the same thing word for word; only using the
 word little instead of never. 
 Though in reality old wine is not only more pleasant, but also better for health;
 for it aids digestion more; and being thinner it is itself more digestible; it
 also invigorates the body; and makes the blood red and fluid, and produces
 untroubled sleep. But Homer praises that wine most which will admit of a copious
 admixture of water; as the Maronean. And old wine will allow of more water being
 added to it, because its very age has added heat to it. And some men say, that the
 flight of Bacchus to the sea is emblematic of the making of wine, as it was
 practised long ago; because wine is very sweet when sea-water
 is poured into it. And Homer praising dark-coloured wine, often calls it αἴθοψ. For the dark-coloured wine is the strongest, and
 it remains in the system of the drinkers of it longer than any other. But
 Theopompus says, that black wine was first made among the Chians; and, that the
 Chians were the first people who imparted the knowledge of planting and tending
 vines to the rest of mankind, having learnt it from Œnopion the son of Bacchus,
 who was the original colonizer of their island. But white wine is weak and thin;
 but yellow wine is very digestible, being of a more drying nature.