Women celebrating Dionysus on a cup by Makron (c.490 BC). The rites of the wine god were the one arena where Greek women and wine mixed freely. Antikensammlungen, Berlin.By the This Day in Wine […]
Ancient Roman Women and Wine The ancient Romans had much in common with today's wine culture. Wine was an art to the Romans, and ancient sommeliers would classify wine by taste and color. But […]
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 […]
March 11, 1744: The fine art auction company Sotheby's was established on this day. The company's wine subsidiary, Sotheby's Wine, specializes in wine auctions in different locations, including Hong Kong, New York, and London. […]
March 28, 1658: The first enslaved, privately owned workers arrived in Angola. Angola transitioned into a slave society and economy, as wine and wheat production were performed by enslaved laborers and supervised by merchant […]
March 31, 1991: A new hybrid wine yeast strain was developed and commercialized. In the wake of this discovery, Anchor Yeast became the first business and wine yeast brand anywhere globally to begin manufacturing […]
March 1224: The first-ever wine tasting competition was held. French King Philip Augustus initially organized the competition; because the king was the only wine critic who counted. The competition consisted of around seventy different […]
March 15, 44 BC: Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome on the Ides of March; the Roman historian Pliny the Elder recorded that at a banquet marking one of Caesar’s triumphs he served prized […]
March 22, 1948: Andrew Lloyd Webber was born. Webber is an English musical theater composer, a household name amongst those who are familiar with the stage. He has been a fervent wine collector for […]
March 18, 1909: Ernest J. Gallo was born. Gallo is famed for co-founding E. & J. Gallo Winery with his brother Julio, following in the footsteps of his father who ran a wine distribution […]
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