Pasteurization and Wine Diseases On 23 January 1860, the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty, an Anglo-French free trade agreement, was signed between Great Britain and France. The treaty ended tariffs on various items of trade, silk, wine, […]
January 23, 390: St Urban of Langres, bishop and patron of vine-growers and winemakers, died around 390; he is commemorated locally in Langres on 23 January (his general feast is 2 April). January 23, […]
August 8, 1856: Pathologist Newton Pierce was born. The unknown disease that devastated wide swaths of grape vines in Southern California, USA, was originally described by Newton Pierce in 1892. The bacterium that causes […]
April 18, 1855: The Bordeaux Wine Official Classification took place at the request of Napoleon III. All of the wines in Bordeaux were ranked by brokers in order of importance. The red wine of […]
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