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Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691127842. Patrick E. McGovern (2010). Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520267985. Emlyn K. Dodd (2020). Roman and Late Antique wine production in the eastern ...
History of American wine. The Brotherhood Winery, in Washingtonville, New York, is the longest continual winery in the United States; [ 1] it was built in 1838. The history of American wine began when the first Europeans explored parts of North America, which they called Vinland because of the profusion of grape vines found there.
The major wine regions of France. The history of French wine, spans a period of at least 2600 years dating to the founding of Massalia in the 6th century BC by Phocaeans with the possibility that viticulture existed much earlier. The Romans did much to spread viticulture across the land they knew as Gaul, encouraging the planting of vines in ...
France is one of the largest wineproducers in the world, along with Italian, Spanish, and Americanwine-producing regions. [1][2]French wine traces its history to the 6th century BCE, with many of France's regions dating their wine-making history to Romantimes.
Bordeaux wine spans almost 2000 years to Roman times when the first vineyards were planted. In the Middle Ages, the marriage of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine opened the Bordeaux region to the English market and eventually to the world's stage. The Gironde estuary and its tributaries, the Garonne and the Dordogne rivers play a ...
Winemaking. Wine grapes from the Guadalupe Valley in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine -making stretches over millennia.
History of Champagne. A bottle of Champagne being used to christen the USS Shangri-La (CV-38) in 1944. Champagne has had a long history of being used in celebration of events such as the launching of ships. The history of Champagne began when the Romans planted vineyards in this region of northeast France in the 5th century, or possibly earlier.
Here's a look at how it got started and a timeline of its key events over 60 years and longer. 1924: WCBS is founded on Sept. 24 by Alfred H. Grebe, a radio set manufacturer.