Online Posts and Articles on the History of Wine: #1

Arnaldus, d. Villanova. (1500). Incipit Tractatus de vinis. [Parisiis: Felix Baligault pour Claude Jaumar & Thomas Julian. URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175022938057

I am impressed with the efforts of online historians who seem to explore every aspect of the history food, science, medicine, and society.  There are vibrant communities on Twitter and Facebook that promote and aggregate these posts.  Two excellent blogs that  promote the history of science are the now defunct The Giant’s Shoulders  and its replacement Whewell’s Ghost.   On the pages of these two blogs you will find a weekly digest of the best online posts about science, technology, and medicine.  In a similar vein I will put together a monthly post aggregating links to blog posts, articles, images, and videos about the history of wine.  This is a rich subject touching social history, medicine, science, gardening, and art.  I personally think there is much yet to explore.  So please help me promote new research and an online community!

In this first post I have put together links for the months of June and July.  If I have missed anything let me know and I will update this post.  Please enjoy the links and share them online with your friends.  Until the end of August you may find more history of wine at:

Facebook: History of Wine

Twitter: #histwine

Posts and Articles

In Vitrum Veritas. Image from CNRS. URL: http://videotheque.cnrs.fr/doc=2057

The Academic Wino: The History of Wine Containers: Featuring Guest Writer Emily Kate

Averys Blog: Wine and Warfare Part 12 : Vineyards Under Attack

Averys Blog: Wine and Warfare Part 11 : The Germans

Averys Blog: Wine and Warfare Part 10 : Rum and Blood

Averys Blog: Wine and Warfare Part 9 : France’s Armies in the First World War

Averys Blog: Wine and Warfare Part 8 : Battlefield Medicine

BBC News: The tunnels that house Goering’s wine collection

Current Anthropology: Mediterranean Containerization

Ekathimerini: Wine cup used by Pericles found in grave north of Athens

European Review: Stefan K. Estreicher A Brief History of Wine in South Africa (pdf)

Grape Collective: UNDERSTANDING THE HISTORY OF WINE THROUGH ANCIENT TEXTS AND ARTIFACTS

Hogshead Wine: Australian Wine in Egypt

Hogshead Wine: Buy 1684, avoid 1687: An Historic German Vintage Chart

Hogshead Wine: “our Vat was a Bark-Pail”: An Account of 17th Century Wine Making in Canada

Hogshead Wine: “Very rare liquors”; Centuries Old Tasting Notes and A New One of Tenerife Wine

Hogshead Wine: Jim Chevallier’s “Early Medieval French wine”

Hogshead Wine: “Home Brew’d is best”: Historic Drinks at Independence Day and Revolutionary War Peace Celebrations

Hogshead Wine: “A finer Flower was never drank”: A Look at Early Advertisements of the Wines of Chateau Haut-Brion 1705-1717

Hogshead Wine: Vignes Tropicales and Vignes de l’Extreme Orient: The Top Wine Producing Countries in 1889

Hogshead Wine: “[S]mashed [the bottles of wine] publically and then left him for dead”: The Early Association of Sommelier with Wine

Mosel Wine: Codes of Mosel Auslesen

New Life Magazines: A Rich Heritage

NPR: How Atomic Particles Helped Solve A Wine Fraud Mystery

Salon: Make wine and kill the king: The legendary vineyard at the heart of a grand European conspiracy

The Sacramento Bee: 70 years later, a bottle of wine evokes memories of war

Smithsonian: The Science of Champagne,the Bubbling Wine Created By Accident

Vine Pair: THE FASCINATING HISTORY BEHIND AMERICA’S OLDEST NATIVE GRAPE: NORTON

Wine as Was: Pol Roger – drinking the 1892 vintage

Wine Searcher: 100 Years Ago: the War Wounds of Germany’s Vineyards

Wine-Searcher: 1914: Champagne’s Violent Vintage

Images

Image from Vinum Wine

Hogshead Wine: Wine For French Troops During the Gallipoli Campaign, April 1915-January 1916

Hogshead Wine: French soldiers removing the wines from the cellars in Amiens into lorries. (1918)

Hogshead Wine: Uncorking Old Sherry

Hogshead Wine: The Creation of a German Vineyard in the 1920s

Hogshead Wine: Homicidal Winemakers: Images from Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Hogshead Wine: Vendange Divine:Divine Vintage

Hogshead Wine: As the Crow Flies: Historic Images of “Les Quatre Premiers Grands Crus du Medoc”

Hogshead Wine: “Allied artillery, providing a grim background, hammered the enemy” While Celebrating the Liberation of Bayeux with Wine

Vinum Wine: Satyr and the wine press

Wine Terroirs: Anonymous wine scenes in France (3)

Videos

British Pathe: English Vineyard 1961

History of Wine and Art Series: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Paintings

History of Wine and Art Series: Vase Paintings

History of Wine: Artifacts

History of Wine: Archeology and Science

History of Wine: Historical Accidents

History of Wine: Religion

History of Wine: Winemaking and Fermentation

History of Wine: Trade

History of Wine: Health Benefits and Medicinal Uses

 

Arnaldus, d. Villanova. (1500). Incipit Tractatus de vinis. [Parisiis: Felix Baligault pour Claude Jaumar & Thomas Julian.