Birthdays in Wine History 26 July 1638 – On this day, Dom Pierre Perignon was born. Perignon was a Benedictine monk credited with the discovery of sparkling win on 4 August 1639. Perignon was […]
A Brief Timeline of a Few of the World's Most Famous Winemakers The basics of winemaking is actually very simple. Take grapes, crush them, and let the grape juice ferment with yeast to become alcohol, […]
The Rutherford district of Napa — whose “dust,” André Tchelistcheff said, was the secret of great Cabernet. Via Wikimedia Commons.By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 20267 min […]
The History of Winemaking Winemakers, sometimes called vintners, have been making wines for millennia. Wine is a fascinating product that goes through many steps before it is finished. First, the grapes are harvested. This […]
April 30, 1859: The British Medical Journal reported on the recent death of Dr. Robert Mortimer Glover. In 1842 Glover was awarded the Gold Medal by the Harveian Society for discovering the anesthetic qualities […]
December 16, 1777: Madame Clicquot Ponsardin, the first woman to run a Champagne house was born. In the early 1800s, French women were taught to be mothers and wives. Clicquot, a young mother, took […]
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