Paso Robles: The Wine County Paso Robles has been a well known California wine region since the wine industry started booming in the late 1970s. It is home to more than 200 wineries and […]
Zinfandel vineyards in Sonoma’s Dry Creek Valley — the red grape behind America’s favourite pink wine. Naotake Murayama, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBy the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked […]
By the This Day in Wine History Editorial Board • ✓ Researched, fact-checked, and cross-referenced against primary and scholarly sources. Zinfandel is the grape Americans have long called their own — the bold, brambly […]
January 8, 482: On this day, Severinus of Noricum died. Saint and "Apostle to Noricum" Severinus of Noricum is well-known. He might have been born in the African Roman province or Southern Italy, according […]
Zinfandel vineyards in Dry Creek Valley, Sonoma — the grape’s adopted American home. Naotake Murayama, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia CommonsBy the This Day in Wine History Editorial Team✓ Researched, fact-checked & verifiedAugust 202612 […]
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April 2, 1767: The expulsion of the Jesuits from Spain’s massive territories across the Americas began. This was undertaken on the orders of King Charles III of Spain and followed similar efforts by the […]
December 28, 1878: Henderson Luelling died. An American Quaker, abolitionist, and pioneering nurseryman, he hauled grafted fruit trees and vines west along the Oregon Trail in 1847 and helped found the varietal fruit-growing tradition […]
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