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 […]
Catholicism's Enduring Influence on the Wine Sector Most religions around the world forbid the consumption of alcoholic drinks at various levels. However, this is not the case with wine production and consumption. Historically, wine […]
Age of Exploration and Wine The Age of Exploration is an era that began in the early 15th century and lasted through the 17th century. Sometimes this era is also called the Age of […]
August 28, 1784: Junipero Serra, the so-called Apostle of California, died at the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo in California. Between the late 1760s and the early 1780s, Serra led the Franciscan mission […]
November 24, 1713: Junipero Serra was born. As a missionary, Serra undertook a new task in 1749: Spreading his religion throughout the New World. He first went to Mexico with Francisco Palóu, an old […]
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