By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 9 min read No drink is more entangled with the sacred than wine. In one […]
Read more To go deeper, these books make excellent companions: The Oxford Companion to WineJancis Robinson & Julia HardingView on AmazonThe World Atlas of WineHugh Johnson & Jancis RobinsonView on AmazonVintage: The Story of […]
Wine windows, or "buchette del vino," have been a part of history since the 17th century, when they were first introduced as a response to the bubonic plague outbreak in Italy. As the world […]
September 25, 1819: An Anglican missionary by the name of Samuel Marsden planted about a hundred grape vines of different varieties which he had brought from Sydney to New Zealand at the site he […]
Gout, a painful form of arthritis, has been a subject of medical literature for centuries. Its historical association with the affluent and the royal, coupled with its connection to the consumption of wine, has […]
October 11, 1738: Arthur Phillip was born. He was the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales and a member of the British Royal Navy. From June 1751 to December 1753, Phillip […]
September 2, 909: the Cluny Abbey was built. Located in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France, Cluny Abbey was formerly a Benedictine monastery. From the early fourth until the middle of the twelfth century, three churches were […]
October 3, 1226: Francis of Assisi died while in his mid-forties. This Italian mystic and religious leader was quickly canonized as a saint by Pope Gregory IX just two years later. Francis had developed […]
August 20, 1153: Bernard of Clairvaux died. Saint Bernard, also known as Bernard of Clairvaux, O. Cist., was a Burgundian abbot and an important figure in the Cistercian Order's early efforts to revive Benedictine […]
March 12, 1088: Pope Urban II became the head of the Catholic Church. As a native Champenois, he proclaimed that the wine of Ay in the Marne department was the best wine made in […]
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