November 6, 1907: The Faroe Islands held a referendum in which roughly 96-97% voted to prohibit the sale of alcohol including wine, leading to Prohibition from 1908. November 6, 1997: Archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, […]
November 4, 1592 : Gerhard Van Honthorst was born. He was a Dutch painter from Utrecht who was a deep admirer of Italian art, traveling to Italy and learning from Caravaggio's works. One of […]
May 6, 1919: Several legislations were approved by the French government to build the foundation for the Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) system, which would firmly define winemaking regulations and geographic borders. To stop fraud […]
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 […]
August 14, 1889: The Griffe Law was passed by the French government. Named after Charles Griffe, a senator representing the Hérault region of southern France who had proposed the law, it was introduced in […]
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: […]
July 30, 1927: Ralph E. Kunkee was born. He advanced the research of Louis Pasteur on Malo-Lactic Fermentation in Winemaking. Malolactic fermentation, often known as Malo or MLF, is the process by which the […]
July 31, 1395: Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy issued his celebrated ordinance ordering the “disloyal” Gamay grape torn out of the Côte d’Or, reserving the region’s finest slopes for Pinot Noir—an early act […]
April 5, 1815: Mount Tambora began erupting; its cataclysmic explosion days later caused significant disruption to the global wine industry due to the massive volume of ash lowering global temperatures up to a year […]
April 18, 1855: The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification took place at the request of Napoleon III. All of the wines in Bordeaux were ranked by brokers in order of importance. The red wine of […]
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