Did Ancient Romans drink white wine?

I live in the Saar-Mosel area. Here we have still today the ancient white Elbling grapes. Elbling was brought to our region by the romans. The romans invented and started vinery two thousand years ago in Germany. So the romans had white wine. read more

Sweet white wines, often flavoured with herbs, were the main type of wine drunk by the ancient Romans. They also had red wines. Wines are discussed by Pliny, Virgil, Martial, and of course in large amounts of bureaucratic and domestic literature. read more

The Romans were also aware of the negative health effects of drinking wine, particularly the tendency towards "madness" if consumed immoderately. Lucretius warned that wine could provoke a fury in one's soul and lead to quarrels. read more

Inscribed is "For one as you can drink wine; for two, you can drink the best; for four, you can drink Falernian." (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/wine.html) As for the colours, both white and red were present, with white being more expensive and limited almost exclusively to the upper classes. read more