The Story

Some of the very first signs of vine domestication occurred during the Neolithic Revolution and well into the Bronze Age, as humans learned to cultivate grapes and turn them into wine.

Spread across the Mediterranean Sea by a grand web of Phoenician and Greek traders, wine would soon become an integral part of all Classical Age civilizations, well into Late Antiquity.

Some of the most famous regions we now associate with Old World wine began to take shape during the Middle Ages, as both religious orders and nobles covered Europe in vineyards.

As the Age of Sail brought the vine to the New World, the world of wine was forever changed. Simultaneously, in Enlightenment Europe, academies would start the first true scientific studies of wine.

The 19th century would bring staggering lows and extraordinary highs to both people and wine: this is the era of both the Great Wine Blight, and the Golden Age of Champagne. 

The Contemporary Era was a time of world wars and international cooperation, of technological upheavals and unrelenting modernization; and just as with society, so too with wine.