Roman classics supply the antidote, but the Greeks… The Greeks bring something else. Go back to Homer, Euripides, and Sophocles, their texts translated with careful exactitude, and you’ll find extraordinary, luminous simplicity. It was just lovely red wine. Lafite ’86 is beautiful red wine, and improbably young for its years. Perhaps Lafite is red wine’s own locus classicus: the reference in justice, the authoritative passage, the exemplary elucidation.