By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 9 min read Wine is one of civilisation’s great pleasures — and for most of […]
The Economics of Wine in the Spread of Colonialism There are several academic subfields dedicated to the study of wine. A few examples are agronomy, geography, geology, and politics. The people who conquered the […]
January 21, 1527: Juan de Grijalva died. Grijalva was among the first to discover the Mexican coast in 1518. Pedro Mártir claimed there were 300 people present, although Hernán Cortés claimed 170 people traveled […]
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 […]
June 7, 1494: On in this day in 1494 the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed in the Spanish town of Tordesillas. The treaty was essentially an agreement between Portugal and Spain to divide the […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 9 min read Africa is often treated as a footnote in wine. It should not […]
Mexican Wine, History, and Tradition Mexico might not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking about wine, but the country has centuries of wine-producing traditions. Mexico is the 35th largest wine-producing […]
April 19, 1783: Catherine II of Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from the Crimean Tatars as part of Russia’s southwards expansion towards the Black Sea, the Caucasus and the Balkans. The Crimea, with its […]
The Jesuits and Wine Production in the New World In the summer of 1599, several zealous Roman Catholics arrived at the developing town of Cordoba in what is now Northwestern Argentina. These men were […]
January 26, 1662: The diarist Samuel Pepys records that since he stopped drinking wine he finds himself much better, minds his business better, and spends less money and less time in idle company. January […]
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