The State of Missouri produced more wine in the 1860s than the States of California and New York put together. A significant inflow of Germans migrants led to a boom in wine production in the Missouri river valley, west of Saint Louis…
The “Methuen Treaty” was an agreement made between Britain and Portugal in 1703 that gave Portuguese products preferential treatment in Britain and promoted the importation of Portuguese wines…
In the midst of the heroic fight against phylloxera era, we discovered that the harmful bug was hibernating on the vine’s roots during the winter period …(click to read more)…
It used to be usual to pour a little wine over the dish where the soup had been served in several regions of southern and central France… (read more)…
The French wine from the Bordeaux region’s Montbazillac appellation, which the Dutch loved, was known as “Madère du Périgord” and was the subject of a significant commerce with them beginning in the 14th century. The Edict of Nantes’ revocation, which led to the exodus of more than 40,000 Protestants from Read more…
Up until a specific time of the year, typically set by local habits, the “right of banvin” allowed the lord to sell his own wine before that of his vassals (the time during which the sale of wines other than those belonging to the lord were banned varied greatly from Read more…