Vineyards below the snow-capped Andes in Mendoza — the high-altitude desert that made Argentine Malbec famous. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 20267 min readArgentina […]
July 29, 1866: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot died. Early in the 19th century, French women were taught to be spouses and mothers. At the age of 27, after the passing of her husband, François, Clicquot—a young […]
September 30, 2014: The movie Barolo Boys was released. The Barolo Boys, a group of small independent winemakers, "upset the quiet world of the Piedmontese countryside and brought about a revolution in Italian wine, […]
October 7, 1571: The Battle of Lepanto began. The Ottoman Turks and Christian allies of the Holy League engaged in naval combat in the waters off southwest Greece at the Battle of Lepanto, which […]
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