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Brazil is the third-largest producer of wine in Latin America, behind Argentina and Chile; production in 2018 was 3.1 million hectolitres (82,000,000 US gal), slightly more than New Zealand. In 2019, Brazil was the 15th largest wine producer in the world.
The Greeks may have even been involved in the first appearance of wine in ancient Egypt. [66] They introduced the V. vinifera vine to [67] and made wine in their numerous colonies in modern-day Italy, [68] Sicily, [69] southern France, [70] and Spain. [67]
In 1822 Gregory Blaxland became the first person to export Australian wine, and was the first winemaker to win an overseas award. [13] In 1830 vineyards were established in the Hunter Valley. [ 11 ] In 1833 James Busby returned from France and Spain with a serious selection of grape varieties including most classic French grapes and a good ...
Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...
The Portuguese establish Recife in Pernambuco, in the Northeast of Brazil. [25] 1539–1542: The first African slaves arrive in Pernambuco. [26] 1549: 29 March: The city of Salvador, Brazil's first capital, is founded by Tomé de Sousa. [27] 1551: Portugal founds a sugar colony at Bahia. 1554: 25 January
[8] [9] This is approximately the time when barley beer and grape wine were beginning to be made in the Middle East. Evidence of alcoholic beverages has also been found dating from 5400 to 5000 BC in Hajji Firuz Tepe in Iran, [ 10 ] 3150 BC in ancient Egypt , [ 11 ] 3000 BC in Babylon , [ 12 ] 2000 BC in pre-Hispanic Mexico [ 12 ] and 1500 BC ...
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Tomé de Sousa, first Governor General of Brazil, brought the first group of Jesuits to the colony. [17] More than any other religious order, the Jesuits represented the spiritual side of the enterprise and were destined to play a central role in the colonial history of Brazil.