June 276: In this month, Marcus Aurelius Probus became Roman Emperor. Marcus Aurelius Probus used his army to cultivate new vineyards in the Pannonian region and overturned Emperor Domitian's earlier restriction on winemaking north […]
October 3, 1226: Francis of Assisi died while in his mid-forties. This Italian mystic and religious leader was quickly canonized as a saint by Pope Gregory IX just two years later. Francis had developed […]
July 7, 1980: Beginning and for several years after, Boerner, the first rootstock believed to be resistant to all phylloxera biotypes, was introduced in Germany. July 7, 1986: Under 27 CFR 4.39(i), a brand […]
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