Roman villa with fountain of wine for ‘super elite’ discovered in Italy
The winery, built for a Roman emperor, boasted marble floors and fountains from which grape juice gushed
That’s not elite behaviour, that’s common as muck got rich behaviour. As was true of rather a large number of Roman Emperors.
The actual elites had enough slaves to deliver the Falernian as it should be.
I’m sure quite a few senators would have agreed with you Tim.
But not where the emperor could hear them.