Wine and the Papacy: How the Church Shaped European Wine
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 7 min readFor most of a thousand years, the Catholic Church was the most important […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 7 min readFor most of a thousand years, the Catholic Church was the most important […]
A monk samples the cellar in a medieval illumination. In the medieval world three great faiths shared the same fermented grape — and reached three very different verdicts about it. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team • ✓ Researched, fact-checked, and cross-referenced against primary sources. Bordeaux wine is the benchmark the rest of the world measures itself against — the largest […]