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Commentators, as early as the Classical era, on have excused Noah ’ s excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker, the first person to discover the soothing, consoling, and enlivening effects of wine.

John Chrysostom, a church father, writes that Noah ’ s behaviour is defensible: as the first human to taste wine, he would not know its aftereffects: “ Through ignorance and inexperience of the proper amount to drink, fell into a drunken stupor ”.