A vineyard in the Yakima Valley, Washington By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Board • ✓ Researched, fact-checked, and cross-referenced against primary and scholarly sources. Washington is the great surprise of American […]
November 6, 1907: The Faroe Islands held a referendum in which roughly 96-97% voted to prohibit the sale of alcohol including wine, leading to Prohibition from 1908. November 6, 1997: Archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad, […]
March 28, 1658: The first enslaved, privately owned workers arrived in Angola. Angola transitioned into a slave society and economy, as wine and wheat production were performed by enslaved laborers and supervised by merchant […]
Vineyards around Riquewihr in Alsace — the grand home of Gewürztraminer, the most perfumed of white grapes. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 20266 min […]
Read more To go deeper, these books make excellent companions: The Oxford Companion to WineJancis Robinson & Julia HardingView on AmazonThe World Atlas of WineHugh Johnson & Jancis RobinsonView on AmazonVintage: The Story of […]
May 8, 1962: Karen A. Page was born in Warren, Michigan. She is an author best known for her books on food and wine written collaboratively with her husband Andrew Dornenburg. Some titles include […]
April 4, 1925: George Remus was nicknamed the "King of the Bootleggers" in Cincinnati. George Remus, born in Germany but reared in Chicago, would establish himself as a prominent defense attorney in the Windy […]
July 1, 1816: Emperor Franz I of Austria handed over ownership of Schloss Johannisberg to his Foreign Minister Prince von Metternich. Schloss Johannisberg is one of the oldest wineries in Germany, since its wine […]
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