A Tour of the World of Mexican Wine
A tour of the world of Mexican wine Contrary to what you might think, wine in Mexico has a long story. We will go back to before the Spanish conquest, when table grapes already […]
A tour of the world of Mexican wine Contrary to what you might think, wine in Mexico has a long story. We will go back to before the Spanish conquest, when table grapes already […]
January 21, 1527: On this day, 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 […]
January 18, 1677: On this day, Jan van Riebeeck died. Dutch navigator and colonial administrator Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck worked for the Dutch East India Company. When the Dutch East India Company arrived […]
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 […]
September 27, 1821: The Mexican War of Independence ended. One change among the many societal shifts involved was the lifting of a prohibition on Mexican wine that had been law for over a century. […]
December 2, 1547: On this day, Hernán Cortés died. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca, was in charge of an expedition that, in the early […]
May 17, 1784: Thomas Jefferson was appointed by the confederation Congress to travel to France, later becoming the senior Minister of the United States in France. He arrived in France onboard a merchant ship […]
July 20, 356 B.C.: On this day, Alexander the Great was born. At the height of Macedonian power, when Alexander the Great succeeded Philip in 336 BC, the major wine-producing and wine-trade centers of […]
September 28, 1542: On this day the explorer Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo landed with his expedition on behalf of the Spanish monarch, King Charles V, at San Diego Bay in southern California. It was the […]