Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, once so productive it was called the mother of California’s vineyards. Via Wikimedia Commons.By Ken Wytsma✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 202613 min readCalifornia is now one of the great wine […]
California wine country, where the 1976 winners were grown. Photo: John Morgan / CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ✓ VERIFIEDBy the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team — researched, fact-checked & verified […]
Mission San Juan Capistrano, long credited with California’s first substantial winemaking in the 1780s. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 202610 min readCalifornia is now […]
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper (1495–98). At this meal Jesus identified a cup of wine with his blood — the moment that placed wine at the centre of Christian worship. Santa Maria delle […]
Railways, Steamships, and Marketing: Modern Technology and the Emergence of the Global Wine Trade, c. 1800–2000 Introduction - The Wine Industry in 1800 The global wine industry has developed in enormous ways over the […]
The Hanseatic League and the Wine Trade in Late Medieval Europe Wine Trade in Medieval Europe It is widely accepted that Europe has been divided for centuries into a wine-drinking south and a beer-drinking […]
The Pre-Colonial Wine Of Indigenous Peoples Before the first colonizers set foot in the Americas, Indigenous peoples were creating fermented beverages from local plants. In Mexico, there were over 30 different types of alcoholic […]
The Médoc is dotted with châteaux bearing Irish surnames — the legacy of the “Wine Geese” who fled Ireland and made Bordeaux their home. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial […]
Wine and Weather: A Tangled History Of all aspects of viticulture, the weather is probably the single most unpredictable factor involved in the wine-making equation. Microclimates can play a huge part in determining what […]
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 […]
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