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Thomas Hine & Co. is named after its proprietor Thomas Hine (sometimes recorded as Thomas Hone), an Englishman from Dorset, England. The company was founded in 1763. [1] Following his arrest during the French Revolution, Thomas Hine married a young woman, Françoise Elisabeth Delamain, whose father owned a cognac house in Jarnac. [2]
Cognac (/ ˈ k ɒ n. j æ k / KON-yak, also US: / ˈ k oʊ n-, ˈ k ɔː n-/ KOHN-, KAWN-, [2] [3] [4] French: ⓘ) is a variety of brandy named after the commune of Cognac, France.It is produced in the surrounding wine-growing region in the departments of Charente and Charente-Maritime.
Thomas Hardy's Ale is a Barley wine named after famous English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy. The brand has gone under numerous owners over the years, but now is currently brewed under contract at Meantime Brewery .
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For Cognac, the vintage was considered one of the greatest in history, with many producers today including images of stars on their labels as a homage to the 1811 vintage. Notable wines from this include the 1811 Château d'Yquem, which received a perfect 100-point wine rating by wine critic Robert Parker at a 1996 tasting over one hundred and ...
Sold for: $558,000. With only 600 bottles ever produced, this blended red wine marked the final harvest before the vineyard’s old vines were uprooted.Made during the tail end of World War II ...
Wine label of the Grieser Kurwein, 1910 ca Historical wine label. Paper wine labels have long been collected. This can turn into a full-fledged hobby, with collections organized by theme, country, or region. For others, saving labels may be part of maintaining a wine tasting-notes journal, or just simply to remember a particular wine.
Consumers didn't recognize grape varieties at that time and New World producers used the familiar names to suggest the style of wine they were offering for sale. U.S. regulations require that semi-generic names (for example, California champagne) may be used on a wine label only if there appears next to such name the appellation of "the actual ...