October 12th - This Date in Wine History
/Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast
Wine has a long established history of being our drink of choice for celebrating, entertaining, and savoring life; but it didn't start out that way. From the invention of the barrel to the designation of the separate viticultural areas, wine has a long and sorted history. In our daily feature This Date In Wine History, we share an event of critical importance in wine history.
- King Belshazzar of Babylon offers his guests wine from goblets taken from the temple in Jerusalem as the city falls in 539 BCE
- Helena Modjeska was born in 1840. She and a small group of Polish artists and aristocrats emigrated to Anaheim, California to create a colony based on Brooks Farm. They grew muscat grapes which no one would buy but stole… The colony failed and Modjeska returned to the theater but created her home at Arden in Anaheim until 1906.