Ancient Wine History relates to articles and dates for key wine discoveries, archeology, and the first and oldest wine regions. Learn about the deep history of winemaking!
A taster can be fooled; a molecule can't. Since 1981, SNIF-NMR reads a deuterium signature in wine's alcohol to tell whether the sugar started as grapes or came out of a sack.
Traditional Georgian qvevri, the buried clay vessels used to ferment and age wine for 8,000 years. MHM55, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBy the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & […]
The rtveli, or grape harvest, in Kakheti, the heartland of Georgian wine. rugbyxm, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBy the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 202612 min readGeorgia […]
Pliny The Elder And His Remarkable Contribution to The Wine World “Who can entertain a doubt that some kinds of wine are more agreeable to the palate than others…whether it is that it is […]
Wine Gods Beyond Dionysius and Bacchus We are all familiar with some of the most famous wine gods in world history. The most notable amongst these is Dionysius, the Greek god of wine and […]
Selim II and Cyprus Wine Islam has very strong opinions about alcohol, but, as with many religions across history, not everyone who practices a particular religion has taken its tenets to heart. One ruler […]
Between Constantinople and Baghdad: Wine, Islam and the Eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages, c. 600–1300 A Strange Paradox in Wine History There is a peculiar contradiction in the history of wine in the […]
Old bottles resting in the Massandra cellars on the Black Sea — the imperial winery built up under Prince Golitsyn. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & […]
Modern vineyards in the Golan Heights — the latest chapter in one of the world’s oldest wine stories. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBy the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked […]
A Wine Lover's Guide to Understanding History Wine is a fascinating subject to study. From the grapes themselves to the barrels used to age wine in the cellar, there is so much history to […]
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