The custom of drinking wine and food out of the home starts in our ancestors the Romans, following its tradition to different cultures today
These places was not only a place to eat and drink wine, but were and still are a meeting place where to make social relations (fraternization with neighbors or customers) or economic (production business closures contracts ...).
Each tavern was known and differentiated by the quality of its wines, known only drink because drinking beer did not exist in these places.
