The port comes out after dinner — and with it, one of the most precise pieces of unwritten etiquette in the English-speaking world. Photograph by Daryn Nakhuda (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Pass […]
August 15, 1038: Saint Stephen of Hungary passed away. From 1000 or 1001 until he died in 1038, Stephen I, sometimes referred to as King Saint Stephen, reigned as Hungary's first monarch. Between 997 […]
September 3, 1758: King Joseph I of Portugal barely survived an assassination attempt outside Lisbon when three men intercepted his unmarked carriage outside the Portuguese capital. In the weeks that followed the Marchioness Leonor […]
March 4, 1193: Al-Nasr Salah-al Din, better known simply as Saladin, meaning the ‘Righteousness of the Faith’, died at Damascus in Syria. This Kurdish general had risen to become Vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate […]
April 16, 778: Louis the Pious was born. From 813, Louis the Pious, also known as the Fair and the Debonaire, co-ruled the Roman Empire with his father, Charlemagne. He reigned as king of […]
July 26th, 1973: an innovative winemaker in San Luis Obispo, Jack Niven established the illustrious Paragon Vineyard. As the "Founding Father of the Edna Valley," he initiated and won the petition to have the […]
The Origin of The Champagne Coupe The origin of the champagne coupe has been debated amongst historians for centuries. The champagne coupe is stemware with a broad–bowled, saucer-shaped wine container standing on the stem […]
November 22, 1847: The settler ship John Wickliffe departs from London for New Zealand. Its arrival is considered the founding day of the Otago region. Central Otago in particular has become an area famed […]
April 13, 1743: Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. President, was born. Over the course of his study of law, he developed a love for wine, which he carried throughout his life. He built a […]
October 22, 1685: The Edict of Fontainebleau was issued in France by the government of King Louis XIV. Through it, the French government essentially revoked religious toleration for France's Protestants, which they had earlier […]
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