The Origins of Wine and Winemaking
Wine has a long and venerable history, with references to its use cropping up in ancient texts from thousands of years ago – not least, of course, in the Bible. We know for a fact that it was firmly established in the Middle Eastern culture of around two thousand years ago, and for it to […]
Wine History – When the Cork Met the Bottle
The role of the Church in the production and marketing of wine declined with the Reformation, particularly in northern Europe, but this did not convulse the wine world half as much as the discovery of the usefulness of corks about a century later. For the first time since the Roman empire, wine could now be […]