To defend Port's honesty, the Marquis of Pombal drew the world's first demarcated wine region — and ordered the Douro's elderberry trees uprooted to stop the faking of Port's color.
The steep, terraced vineyards of the Douro Valley — among the hardest-worked in the world, and the source of Port. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & […]
July 4, 907: in a battle fought at Brezalauspurc, the Hungarians consolidated their hold over the Carpathian Basin by beating the Bavarian army. Following this conquest, the supporters of rpád, the founder of the […]
July 31, 1395: Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy issued his celebrated ordinance ordering the “disloyal” Gamay grape torn out of the Côte d’Or, reserving the region’s finest slopes for Pinot Noir—an early act […]
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