November 30

November 30, 1874: Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England. The future British prime minister was a devoted lover of Champagne, above all Pol Roger, which after his death named its prestige cuvée “Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill” in his honour.November 30, 2004: The Dundee Hills American Viticultural Area was established in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Centered on the red Jory soils of the hills above Dundee, where David Lett planted The Eyrie Vineyards in 1966, it became one of Oregon’s most celebrated Pinot Noir appellations.November 30, 2011: The Union des Maisons de Négoce de Bordeaux determined that the term Claret de Bordeaux will be used for wines that match the original historical profile of claret, rather than its disambiguation in the modern era as any dry, red Bordeaux wine.

November 30, 1988: The Wild Horse Valley AVA is established in Napa and Solano counties, California, a cool, wind-swept region near San Pablo Bay.

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