The template for every world-of-wine survey was set in 1833 by Cyrus Redding — a working newspaper editor who had lived in Paris, not a wine merchant.
In a single Tang-dynasty quatrain, Wang Han captured grape wine as a glamorous foreign import in a land of rice wine — drunk from a 'luminous cup' on the Silk Road frontier.
In Arabic literature, wine — forbidden in Islam — became both a formal poetic genre (khamriyya) and, in Sufi verse, the central symbol of union with God.
A Greek krater, the great bowl in which wine was mixed with water before it was served. To drink wine unmixed was, to the Greeks, the mark of a barbarian. Terracotta column-krater, The Metropolitan […]
A whole genre of ancient Greek wine poems survives for one reason: Byzantine schoolteachers kept copying it. The strange, thousand-year rescue of the Greek Anthology.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church keeps one of Christianity’s strictest fasting calendars — and still requires grape wine for the Eucharist, in a land that grew almost none. Photograph by Jean Rebiffé (CC BY […]
Plain grape juice is invalid at Catholic Mass. So how does a priest who cannot drink alcohol consecrate the cup? The answer is mustum — wine caught at the first instant of fermentation.
The Café de Flore in Saint-Germain-des-Prés — second home to Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus, where existentialism was argued over drinks. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · Updated July 2026 · 6 min read In vino veritas is Latin for “in wine, there is truth” […]
Dionysus, god of wine — but also of ecstasy, madness and the theatre. Roman-era mosaic via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 20269 min readEvery wine […]
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