California Missions

The Origins of California Wine: Junipero Serra, the Apostle of California

Mission San Juan Capistrano, long credited with California’s first substantial winemaking in the 1780s. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 202610 min readCalifornia is now […]

Staff Writers2026-08-02T23:05:25+00:00Categories: 1701 CE to 1800 CE, Colonialism, Medieval Period & Monasticism, New World, Wine History In-Depth|Tags: California Missions, Colonial Wine History, Franciscan mission, Junipero Serra, missionaries, San Francisco, serra|

How The ‘Mission Grape’ Started New World Wine

How The 'Mission Grape' Started New World Wine The Mission grape has never been massively popular with wine critics. One study of the history of viticulture in the United States before Prohibition in 1919 […]

Staff Writers2026-08-15T04:48:47+00:00Categories: 1501 CE to 1700 CE, Colonialism, New World, Technology & the Vine, This Day in Wine History | Articles|Tags: California Missions, Christianity, Colonialism, mission grape, New World History In-depth, Religion, Spanish Colonialism, viticulture|

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