History of Wine Flashcards
What is the oldest archeological evidence for wine?
- Caucasus regionbetween black sea and Caspian sea
- Modern day Georgia
- 5,800 to 6,000 BCE
What is different about producing beer vs. wine?
- Beer can be produced anytime because grains are year-round
- Wine can be produced only anually becasue of grapes are harvested only annually
- Beer is more easily produced on a smaller scale, wine ususally requires a larger scale for production
What did the greeks and romans bring to wine?
- Developed grape growing and wine production pratices
- As romans conquered areas they brought wine
- Roman trade routes helped bring wine to,m and develop, regions of the Rhone and Bordeaux
Wine in the middle ages?
- Became generally more scarce
- vineyards owned mostly by nobility and the church
19th Century transformation
scientific advances and new technology led to collapse of traditional systems
* Steam engine made transport easier
* Fermentation discover by Louis Pasteur
Phylloxera appeared
Describe traditional wine production system
in France prior to 19th century
share cropping system
* Vigneron grew the grapes and made wine for the owner
* Eleveur purchased wine from Vigneron and owner and sold it in the local village or town
* Eleveur stored, aged, or blended wone and sold it to a Negociant
* Negoaciant sold and distributed wine to the urban populace.
Wine in the 20th century
Wine growing becomes very expensive
resulted in development of “appelations”
* codified past history and practices into law
Other trends
* oversupply
* new wine growing regions
* globalization and branding
