Wine Throughout History

By jwin912
  • 6000 BCE

    Wine is Founded

    Wine was founded in the country now known as Georgia
    Cite: https://osu.grlcontent.com/beerandwine/page/ch10txt
  • 1495 BCE

    Cato the Elder

    Created a design for improved growth of grape vines
  • 70

    Pliny

    First major research on viticulture that developed large vineyards
  • Period: to

    Wine Be GONE!!!

    A blight in Europe wiped out much of French wine and was attributed to a pest from North America

  • Wine in Ohio

    Germans introduced wine into Ohio

  • American Wine Production

    1/3 of wine in the US was produced in the Lake Erie area

  • Judgement of Paris

    French and American wineries were pitted against each other in a blind taste-off and an American wine beat out the French competition