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Hippocras

Posted August 2019 
by Stephen Schmidt 

Heavily sweetened, pungently spiced white or red wine meant to speed the digestion and typically drunk following a meal. Named for Hippocrates, the ancient Greek savant popularly considered the “father of medicine,” the wine was drunk throughout Europe from the thirteenth through early eighteenth centuries.

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