By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team • ✓ Researched, fact-checked, and cross-referenced against primary and scholarly sources. Rhône Valley wine is where French wine grew up. Strung along 150 miles of […]
The steep granite terraces of the Northern Rhône around Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie, Viognier’s ancestral home. Olivier Lemoine (, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBy the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked […]
The Wine Terminologies of Various Regions You can easily get confused by the various Wine Terminologies. In 2020, global wine consumption will hit 234 million hectoliters. To help you understand the meaning and value […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 7 min readThe Northern Rhône is small, steep, and single-minded. It is the spiritual home […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 6 min readThe broken tower on the hill above Châteauneuf-du-Pape is what put the Pope […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 6 min readGigondas is the Southern Rhône’s answer to Châteauneuf-du-Pape: the same warm Grenache heart, […]
April 11, 1950: Kathryn Hall was born. In addition to her decades-long work in the wine industry, she has been a successful businesswoman, lawyer, community activist, and the United States Ambassador to Austria. April […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team · ✓ Researched, fact-checked & verified · July 2026 · 7 min readChâteauneuf-du-Pape is the flagship of the Southern Rhône. It was the Pope’s wine […]
February 17, 1920: Under the influence of Prohibition laws, a few wineries declared their sole production of sacramental wine for the Catholic church. As early as 1924, government authorities had developed a deep mistrust […]
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