A relief at Persepolis. Ancient Persia was one of the great cradles of wine. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 202611 min readFew places carry […]
A Chilean vineyard in Colchagua — the kind of ground where Carménère, thought extinct, quietly survived for over a century. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & […]
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 […]
January 6, 1478: On this day in 1478 Uzun Hasan, the Turkic ruler of Aq Qoyunlu, a Muslim state that in late medieval times ruled most of Iraq, Transcaucasia, Syria, western Iran, and eastern […]
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 […]
February 16, 1614: Christopher Merrett, the English physician and scientist, was born on February 16, 1614/1615; in a 1662 paper to the Royal Society he gave the first written account of deliberately adding sugar […]
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