The Wine Timeline
(not to scale)

        4) From 50 BCE- CE400, Romans spread                                         9) By 1152 Britain    
         vines and wine to most of Europe, southern                                      becomes Bordeaux’s
         Russia, parts of Britain, and northern Africa.                                     largest customer.
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  2) Egypt & Phoenicia                                                   7) In the mid 8th century
  start wine production                                                    Emperor Charlemagne
  around 3000 BCE.                                                        advances the art of wine.
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6000 BCE     3000 BCE     1000 BCE   50 BCE          500            1000      1100     1200           
                                                                     
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1) Around 6000 BCE the           5) After the fall of the Roman      8) Monasteries develop vineyards
first wines are made in Cau-         Empire, wine production is con-   in the Champagne region, Burg-
casia & Mesopotamia.           inued by Europe’s Monasteries.  undy, and the Rhine Valley.
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   3) Circa 1000 BCE ancient Greeks       A) The first record      6) Wine production halts in most of    
   begin cultivating vineyards throughout   of what is thought      Spain during Moorish rule and doesn't
   Spain, Italy, and the Greek Islands.      to be Pinot Noir         start again until the 13th century.

    11) From the 14th-16th centuries, European cities                                 17) Tragedy strikes European
     have no supply of clean drinking water. Wine is                                    wine makers with the spread
     safe to drink and is standard in the daily diet.                                       of Phylloxera in the late 1800s.
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10) In 1224 the king of France or-    14) Wars and tariffs turn British   16) Land ownership    19) Beekman W&L
ganizes the first international  taste from Bordeaux to Port.  is privitized after    is founded in 1956
tasting. A Cypriot wine wins!                                           I   the French Revolution. by Stanley Mitchel.
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                                                 12) Better glassmaking    13) Champagne  18) In the 19th & 20th centuries
                                                 makes wine more store-   is "invented."      New World vineyards in Califor-
                                                 able & transportable.                                 nia, Australia, South America,
                                                                                                                and New Zealand gain acclaim.
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         B) First record of Chardon-                          C) The first record of    15) In 1756 Portugal is the first
         nay, but it is probably older.                        Cabernet Sauvignon     country to demarcate and limit
                                                                                                           a wine growing region (Port).