Bordeaux2011, Part 1 - Doctor, I may be suffering from Bordeaux Fever!

In the modern world, it may seem a little ridiculous that we could have ever looked upon Bordeaux fever as anything other than a psychological problem. Nevertheless it is originally thought to have been caused by bad air; subsequently it was believed that poor hygiene was causing the condition to spread through stemware. We can look back with some amazement that many years were spent looking for some kind of pathological cause. It was only relatively recently that we came to understand the condition as a form of mass hysteria.