As we mentioned final week, wine tendencies had been gradual to take maintain within the Center Ages. However as details about wine grew to become extra extensively obtainable, tendencies moved sooner and sooner, and the nineteenth century particularly proved to be a pivotal turning level within the historical past of European wine.
On the time, it was frequent for retailers to jot down concerning the wines they carried in an try to popularize no matter it was that they had readily available. In 1816, a Parisian wine service provider named André Jullien wrote a e-book referred to as “Topographie de Tous les Vignobles Connus” by which he cataloged his travels from China all the best way to South Africa, reviewing every wine he encountered alongside the best way. This grew to become one of many first European wine books obtainable exterior France, however the most well-liked part was the one he wrote on Bordeaux and the Left Financial institution.
It’s stated that these writings helped set the stage for the 1855 Classification of Bordeaux, which grew to become one of many first trendy obsessions in wine tradition. It created an environment within the wine-drinking neighborhood of status — not essentially based mostly on the place the wines got here from, however their lofty value tags. And on this episode of “Wine 101,” Keith discusses the way it all went down. Tune in for extra.
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“Wine 101” was produced, recorded, and edited by yours really, Keith Beavers, on the VinePair headquarters in New York Metropolis. I need to give a giant previous shout-out to co-founders Adam Teeter and Josh Malin for creating VinePair. Massive shout-out to Danielle Grinberg, the artwork director of VinePair, for creating essentially the most superior emblem for this podcast. Additionally, Darby Cicci for the theme music. And I need to thank your complete VinePair workers for serving to me study one thing new day-after-day. See you subsequent week.
