August 1248: During this time, Château de Goulaine began its wine journey as the de Goulaine family produced wines for their personal consumption. Eventually they turned commercial and became France's oldest continuously operational winery, […]
August 4, 1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley was born. A romanticist, he is currently most famous for his poem "Ozymandias," though he also wrote the “The Vine-Shroud,” a grim fragment of a poem describing a […]
June 5, 1305: Bertrand de Got was elected Pope Clement V, the wine-loving pope and namesake of Bordeaux's Chateau Pape Clement whose reign began the move of the papacy toward Avignon. June 5, 1756: […]
January 17, 395: On this day Emperor Theodosius, who had ruled much of the Roman Empire since 379, died. Theodosius was one of the most acclaimed rulers of the Roman Empire in its later […]
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