“I am about to give a dinner party ... and I think my entertainment ... a pantomime of the wedding of Ariadne and Dionysus, the god of wine. Other women who often attended symposia were hetaera ...

I write about the people, business and politics of the wine industry. One step forward, two steps back. That is, understandably, how “progress” has long felt for women in the wine industry ...

The party of four dined at Lookout on the Pier on 15 September, where they ordered bottles of wine, oysters and tapas. Despite clearing their plates, the women did not settle their bill ...