history of wine

enceladus buried underneath mount etna Bernard Picart

Notes on natural wine in Sicily

Natural winemakers are now well established on the island of Sicily. But let us make a brief digression to the people who made this possible. The history of wine, like much that concerns man, is not a straight line. It has many twists and turns, and each path is...

Amphorae - Quevri, Tinaja & Co.

Text: Christoph Raffelt In the last fifteen years, a type of winemaking has received attention that it has hardly received in the last 4,000 years or so. It is about ageing in the amphora. Where and when exactly this method originated is not known, but it is assumed that...