July 14, 1790: The Fete de la Federation, celebrating the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille and precursor to Bastille Day, was held on July 14, 1790, in Paris. July 14, 2005: […]
August 9, 1886: William Vere Cruess was born. Cruess was an innovator in food science who popularized frozen storage for fruit products, and invented methods for using fruits in extracts, syrups, and concentrates. Cruess' […]
May 10, 1525: The Tamasi Treaty was established in Greece. The residents of the inaccessible regions in Thessaly's Agrafa mountain range gained autonomy through the Tamasi Treaty. By combining the first "liberated" Greek vineyard […]
May 9, 1386: Wine exports/imports were established by the Treaty of Windsor. The diplomatic agreement between Portugal and England, known as the Treaty of Windsor, was finalized when King John I of Portugal (House […]
May 23, 1922: Wine was recognized by the Federal authority as part of religious practices. Restrictions on sacramental wine were repealed by Blair, according to the Yorkville Enquirer; now, priests may use wine in […]
March 16, 1837: Ludwig Hermann Goethe was born. Hermann Goethe (1837–1911), a pomologist and expert in German viticulture, studied at the Hohenheim Agricultural Academy. He served as a chief gardener at the Reutlingen Pomological […]
August 2, 1828: The Tokaji wine crisis began. In the beginning, the presence of American railway ties between the eastern and mid-western seaboards made it possible for affordable American grain to become plentiful in […]
August 4, 1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley was born. A romanticist, he is currently most famous for his poem "Ozymandias," though he also wrote the “The Vine-Shroud,” a grim fragment of a poem describing a […]
April 4, 1925: George Remus was nicknamed the "King of the Bootleggers" in Cincinnati. George Remus, born in Germany but reared in Chicago, would establish himself as a prominent defense attorney in the Windy […]
August 14, 1889: The Griffe Law was passed by the French government. Named after Charles Griffe, a senator representing the Hérault region of southern France who had proposed the law, it was introduced in […]
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