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Germany
Burgundy is thought to be the home of tying wine to monasteries……but the first was probably Trier on Germany’s river Mosel
Posca
A thin sour wine from Roman times. Jesus was served it on the cross. Mixed with water.
Dutch and Spanish wine merchants active from?
Mid 14th Century
Who were the gentlemen who invented “Verre angais” glass?
Sir Robert Mansell, Lord John Scudmore, Sir Kenelm Digby and Captain Silas Taylor. Due to wood being banded for use in glass making coal was source. Made more heat which made stronger glass.
In 1662 who was the first to present the idea of secondary fermentation to the Royal Society?
Christopher Merret
Dionysus
Greek wine God who lived on in Ancient Rome under the name Bacchus
Euripides
c. 480- 406 BC
Greek tragedian whose Bacchae depicts Dionysus as inhabiting the wine itself
Pliny the Elder
23- 79 AD
Roman author whose Natural History provides a detailed record of early wine culture
Bernard De Clarvaux
1090- 1153
French Abbot and the founder of the Cistercian order
Pope Urban V
1310- 70
Provençal Benedictine who refused to move to Rome in part because he loved the new Burgundy wines
Arnaud III De Pontac
1599- 1681
French owner of Haut- Brion who led the way in creating a new style of Bordeaux wine
Samuel Pepys
1633- 1703
English diarist who penned the first tasting note on the new Bordeaux wines
Joseph Capus
1867- 1947
French legislator who spearheaded the movement to create controlled appellations throughout France
Pierre Le Roy Boiseaumarie
1890- 1967
French wine estate owner who created France’s first official appellations
What wine was used to toast the Declaration of Independence in 1776?
Madeira
What should Chaptal also be remembered for?
His traite Traite theorique et pratique sur la Culture de la Vigne, appeared in 1801. Put science into the winemaking and viticulture process.
In the 1860s not only Louis Pasteur work on fermentation, he also?
Worked on tests which showed the spoilage of wine through samples collected from his home area in the Jura. He observed wine that was left out and exposed to oxygen had more microorganisms than the samples that were in a closed test tube.
When was it illegal sell single bottles in England?
From 1636 until the Grocers licensing Act of 1860 opened up a mass market.
