May 25

May 25, 1966: Mission Hill Winery, was established in Canada. Although Travel and Leisure magazine has referred to Mission Hill as “the cornerstone of the Canadian wine tourist sector,” the winery is as well-known for its breathtaking setting in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia for the quality of its products. The valley’s five vineyards are spaced out throughout its length, and several of them are located around the valley’s glacial lakes. The valley’s different microclimates and extensive soil types create an extraordinarily broad spectrum of grape varieties.

May 25, 1973: A study was published in the journal Science which advertised to the wider academic community details of the discovery of a vineyard in the ruins of the town of Pompeii in southern Italy near Naples. The vines reported on formed part of the very considerable Roman wine industry of the Campania region prior to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius there in 79 AD and the burial of the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under an enormous layer of volcanic ash and rock. The discovery of the vineyards in the early 1970s has allowed historians and archaeologists to reconstruct the nature of the Pompeiian wine industry and viticulture in general in this part of Italy during the heyday of the Roman Empire. Moreover, as knowledge of the Pompeiian wine industry has expanded in the decades since efforts have been undertaken to begin resurrecting the Pompeiian wine industry as it would have existed two millennia ago. For more information, see Wilhelmina F. Jashemski’s ‘Large Vineyard Discovered in Ancient Pompeii: Root and Stake Cavities Reveal Vineyard of A.D. 79’, in Science, Vol. 180, No. 4088 (25 May 1973), pp. 821–830.

May 25, 2021: Home Winemaking: The Simple Way to Make Delicious Wine was published. Jack B. Keller, Jr and Daniel Pambianchi teach the process of wine making from a beginner’s perspective, showing 65 recipes with the basic principles, the necessary equipment and more.

May 25, 2022: This day is National Wine Day in the United States.

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