1855 Bordeaux Wine Classification The historic 1855 Bordeaux Classification is a French standard for wine categorization, which is regarded as the world's most prominent and authentic wine classification system designed based on wine-producing regions. […]
August 8, 1856: On this day, pathologist Newton Pierce was born. The unknown disease that devastated wide swaths of grape vines in Southern California, USA, was originally described by Newton Pierce in 1892. The […]
February 19, 1866: On this day, Mary Elizabeth Anderson was born. In addition to inventing and acquiring the patent for car windshield wipers, she ran a vineyard in California. February 19, 1870: Nathaniel de […]
© Copyright - 2023 | This Day In Wine History | All Rights Reserved
