We’re kicking off a brand new sequence in regards to the vogue of wine: how developments have modified all through historical past and the intersection of wine and popular culture. As many tales in regards to the historical past of wine start, we’re launching our exploration in Europe.
All through the vast majority of the Center Ages, skinny white wines had been all the trend in northern Europe. Contemplating literature round wine wasn’t broadly circulated — and the vast majority of the inhabitants was illiterate — on the time, the royals, politicians, and different members of the bourgeoisie had been those to set the developments, they usually had been consuming skinny whites with abandon. However that began to alter within the thirteenth century when Henri d’Andely wrote the poem “La Bataille des Vins,” by which he remembers a wine tasting carried out by King Philip Augustus of France. Ultimately, Augustus declares a candy wine from Cyprus because the winner of the tasting, and age-worthy white wines from the Mediterranean containing a lot of residual sugar had been thought of in vogue.
The recognition lasted for hundreds of years, however by the sixteenth century, the tides began to alter as soon as extra. On this episode of “Wine 101,” we’ll talk about how European tastes shifted away from full-bodied Falernian whites and towards purple wines from Bordeaux — particularly Claret. Tune in for extra.
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