June 5th - This Date in Wine History

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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.

  • Clement V was elected to Pope in 1305 and became the first of the Avignon popes. The Popes promoted the vineyards of the area in order to improve the quality of wine that they produced. The result was Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
  • Louis the X of France died in 1316 after playing an exhausting game of “real tennis” (jeu de paume) and then drinking a large quantity of cooled wine which brought on pneumonia. or poison. 
  • The June Rebellion of 1832 occurs in Paris as an attempt to over through Louis-Philippe.  The Rebellion was fictionalized by Victor Hugo in his novel, Les Misérables where students and others build barricades near the wine shop they use as a headquarters.  As in the novel, the Rebellion was squashed quickly.
  • The Albana Romagna Spumante DOC was created in 1995.