The Serra Gaúcha of southern Brazil, settled by Italian immigrants and now the country’s wine heartland. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 20268 min readIn […]
Italian Immigrants and Brazilian Winemaking Italian immigrants play a significant role in Brazilian winemaking history. Giuseppe Miolo was one of the thousands of Italian immigrants who crossed the Atlantic Ocean searching for opportunities in […]
September 3, 1758: King Joseph I of Portugal barely survived an assassination attempt outside Lisbon when three men intercepted his unmarked carriage outside the Portuguese capital. In the weeks that followed the Marchioness Leonor […]
October 18, 1570: Manuel de Nóbrega, a Portuguese Jesuit priest and first Provincial of the Society of Jesus in colonial Brazil died in the colony of Rio de Janeiro. De Nóbrega was an extremely […]
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