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1
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What is a Dolia?

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A flat jar used for storing snacks in wine bars in Pompei.

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Who was King Jamshid?

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A Persian king in a Persian legend that purportedly invented wine.

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What ancient wine writer is credited with being the first to give names to grapes?

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Pliny

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What was the Terebinth tree?

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The sap from the tree was used to create resin for sealing containers.

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What was a Posca Roman Wine?

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A mix of thin sour wine and water.

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What was a Mulsum Roman Wine?

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A sweet mixture of wine and honey.

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What religious order was Clos de Vougeot associated with?

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The Cistercians.

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When was the Opimium Vintage?

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121 B.C.

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Who was Christopher Merret?

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An Englishmen credited with being the first to purposely create sparkling wine.

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In the 1600s, what was Madeira in Charleston and Savannah often named after?

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The ship that transported it.

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Who was Sir Kenelm Digby?

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Owner of a British glass factory that made strong glass as early as 1632.

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Who was Arnaud de Pontac?

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First to charge high prices for wine from Bordeaux, the estate of Haut-Brion.

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Who was Duggie Jooste?

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Recreated Vin de Constance in 1980m released in 1989.

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14
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Who was famous for diluting their wine?

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The Greeks

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15
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Who was Georges Ravenscroft?

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The first person to add lead to glass, creating very strong but clear glass for use in bottles and decanters.

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16
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What was Homer’s preferred ratio of water to wine?

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20:1

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17
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When are the “blood vintages” of Champagne?

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Champagne vintages from 1914 and 1915.

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18
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What is believed to be the oldest wine bottle that still exists today?

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A 1540 Steinwein form Germany.

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What wine was mentioned in Shakespeare’s Falstaff?

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Sherris sack (Sherry)

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What was the name of the law that enforced prohibition in the U.S.?

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The Volstead Act.

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21
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When was the law enforcing prohibition in the US in effect?

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January 17, 1920 - December 5, 1933.

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Where are some likely locations for the first wines to have been made?

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The Transcaucuses - (in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)
Turkey’s Southern Anatolia
Zagros Mountains of Iran.

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What are the Transcaucasus?

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An area south of the Caucasus mountains including Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. May have been where wine was first made.

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What are the Zagros Mountains?

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A mountain range in Iran, where wine may have originated.

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What is the Southern Analotia?

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A region of Turkey where it is possible that wine was first made.

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26
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What did the Georgians call wine?

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Gvino - they may have been the first to give wine a name.

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27
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Who was Enkidu?

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A character in the Babylonian “Epic of Gilgamesh”. A “wild man of the woods”, cited as an ancient example of wine in literature.

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28
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What is Shiraz named after?

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The town of Shiraz in ancient Persia.

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29
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Who was Dionysus?

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The Greek god of wine.

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30
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Who was Eubulus?

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A Greek poet who wrote about the effects of the ten bowls of wine relating to their effect on activity.

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What two types of wine did the ancient Greeks drink?

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Early picked, thin, raw, quick to go sour.
Sweet wines made by drying the grapes.

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32
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Where did the Greeks spread their wine?

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The Roman Empire, France, North Africa, and western Russia.

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33
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Where in Italy did the Greeks settle prior to the Romans?

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Southern Italy and Sicily.

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34
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What was Dionysus known as by the Romans?

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Bacchus

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Where were the first examples found of wine in jars marked with the style, year, area of production, and name of the producer?

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Egypt - the tomb of Tutankhamun.

36
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How did we learn so much about wine making in ancient Egypt?

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Murals on the walls in tombs of less exalted figures, eg. Khaemwaset, which shows a particularly comprehensive view of the process of wine making.

37
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Who developed the first amphorae?

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The Egyptians.

38
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What are amphorae?

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Tall earthenware jars whose pointed bottoms could be buried in sand and transported without breaking, and had narrow necks to seal to prevent air from attacking the wine.

39
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Who is believed to have first invented the glass for drinking wine?

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The Phoenicians, possibly the Syrians or Egyptians.

40
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When was glass for drinking first made?

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Some think as early as 1500 BC in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. It reemerged in the 8th century BC in the same area as well as mesopotamia.

41
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How was the first Phoenician drinking glass made?

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By molding with molten glass and sand.

42
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When and where did glass blowing originate?

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Phoenicia or Syria, in about the 1st century BC.

43
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What ancient city in Persia was known for its wine production?

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Shiraz.

44
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What was Byblos?

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A northern Phoenician town famous in Greece for its wines.

45
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Where are some areas the Phoenicians are believed to have brought vines to?

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Cyprus, areas around the Douro and Tagus rivers in Portugal, and Ebro in Spain, as far as Rioja.

46
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Who are some Romans who wrote about wine?

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Cato, Horace, Virgil, Ovid, Pliny, Galen.

47
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Who first wrote about how wine improves with age?

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Horace

48
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Who first wrote about the virtues of late-harvesting grapes and how to install drainage in damp vineyards?

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Virgil

49
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Who was Cato?

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A Roman writer who set down the rules for efficient large-scale wine estates.

50
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Who was Columella?

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A Roman writer who described methods of pruning and trellising, yield, harvest dates, and other details that are still valid today.

51
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What did Pliny write about wine?

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He classified wines into different ranks, and was the first person to begin to categorize grape varieties. He found 80 varieties, some of which still exist today.

52
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What are some grapes that are believed to have been around during Roman times?

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Greco di Tufo
Fiano
Piedirosso

53
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What wine still in existence to day is made in a way similar to Roman wine?

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Vin Santo in Tuscany
Madeira

54
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How long has wine been made in Georgia?

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8000 years.

55
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What was the Opimian Vintage?

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The most famous Roman wine made near Naples. Was still able to be drunk 100 years later.

56
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What is a fumarium?

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A loft over a smoke room, where wine was heated, oxidized, and pasteurized, all at the same time, similar to Madeira today.

57
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Where did the Romans bring vines while “empire-building”?

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Catalonia, the Duero Valley, Rioja
The Rhine and Mosel
The Rhone Valley, Burgundy, the Loire, Champagne and Bordeaux.

58
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Who described, in his book “Natural History” , resin having the color of honey with a fleshy consistency?

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Pliny

59
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Who generally liked the taste of resin in their wines, and who did not?

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The Romans liked it, the Greeks not so much.

60
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What ancient city was Rome’s wine port?

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Pompeii

61
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Where did the idea of the wealthy running vineyards not for profit but to show off their wealth originate?

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The hills around Pompeii in the first century.

62
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What were amphoriskos?

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Tiny glass jars about 4 inches high and 2 inches across used for serving wine in Rome.

63
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What order of monasteries were the first great order to influence the world of wine?

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The Benedictines.

64
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Which two orders of monasteries had abbeys in Burgundy in the Middle Ages?

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The Cisterians and the Benedictines.

65
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Where did the Benedictines build up vineyards?

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Burgundy’s Gevrey-Chambertin and Vosne-Romanee
The Rhone, Champagne, and the Loire.
Mosel and Rhine Valleys, Franken
Austria/Switzerland

66
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Where did the Cistercians develop vineyards?

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Champagne, the Loire, Provence
Germany
Burgundy’s Cote d’Or

67
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When and why was the Cistercian order founded?

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In 1112 to counter the less austere Benedictines.

68
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What city in France was a prosperous wine port during the middle ages?

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La Rochelle

69
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When and why did Aquitaine become part of England?

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1151, when Henry II married Eleanor of Aquitaine.

70
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When did the Dutch drain the Medoc in Bordeaux?

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The 17th century.

71
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Why did the 1540 Steinwein survive so long?

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It had both high acidity, and was from an unusually warm vintage so was able to ripen well. They were also allowed to add sulphur to wine as of 1487.

72
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Where did the 1540 Steinwein come from?

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The Wurzburger Stein vineyards in the cellars of the Prince-Bishops.

73
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Who were likely the first wine growers to use grapes that had noble rot?

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The Hungarians.

74
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What wine was once said to contain gold?

A

Tokaj

75
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What does the Hungarian word Aszu mean in English?

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Shrivelled, desiccated grapes, and grapes whose sugar is concentrated by noble rot.

76
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When was the first mention of Aszu grape wine?

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1571.

77
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When did Germany first start purposefully nobly rotting their grapes?

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1775.

78
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What is the legend concerning the first azsu wine?

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Szepsi Mate postponed the vintage at the Oremus vineyard of 1630, fearing an attack by the Turks.

79
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What was Verre Anglais?

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“English Glass”, a bottle strong enough to withstand the pressure from sparkling wine.

80
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Where did the original use of a second fermentation in the bottle used for sparkling wine develop?

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In England with the cidermakers of Hereford, Somerset and Gloucester.

81
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What was English Champagne?

A

What many in London called bottle-fermented ciders.

82
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Who was Christopher Merret?

A

The Englishman who may have been the first to determine how to make sparkling wine by adding sugar to cause a second fermentation..

83
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When was cork first used for stopping wine bottles on a regular basis?

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The 1740.

84
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Who first used cork as an occasional stopper?

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The Greeks and Romans.

85
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When did wine bottles first start being produced with the aim of aging the wine in mind?

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The middle of the 18th century.

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