April 26th - This Date in Wine History

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William Shakespeare

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.

  • Birthday of William Shakespeare in 1564.. he wrote "I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.." As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5.
  • Felix Kir, French Catholic priest, resistance fighter and politician for whom the cocktail Kir was named died in 1968.
  • It is the feast day of Paschasius Radbertus who’s most influential work De Corpora et Sanguine Domini is about the transubstantiation of the bread and wine used in the Eucharist.