February 5th - This Date in Wine History
/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.
- In 1206 King John orders Ralph the Miller to let Richard de Redvers have two tuns of wine that the king had bought.
- In 1680, the Town of Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland payed 8 Pounds 3 shilling 8d for “8 pints of claret wine two ounces of tobacco and eight pypes” to honor Granaries sons burial day.
- "Wine in the Word: An inquiry concerning the wine Christ made, the wine of the supper, etc." was an address given by Abraham Coles before the Woman's Christian temperance union of Plainfield, N.J.