Besides being a great conqueror, Alexander the Great was known as something of an oenophile. Here's what we know about his ...

A tome on the totality of wine from a New York sommelier, a tale of six months in a French village and more books for the ...

As Pliny, the Elder famously said, "There's truth in wine." At the high point in the empire's history of wine, experts estimate that a bottle of was being consumed each day for every citizen.

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The French were probably sipping wine made from an identical grape to one used today back in medieval times. DNA from ancient grape seeds shows the grapevine behind a local vintage has been ...

The modern-day glass as we know it probably emerged around 1400 in the city of Venice. People have been using glass to drink wine for a lot longer, even in the ancient world, but the design we ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Depicted on a tetradrachm, the Olympian Dionysus was the god of wine, an important part of the ...

One Thousand Vines will change the way the reader thinks about – and enjoys – wine. Plus, three vintages to sip along the way ...

Some Niagara wine stories are scripted right down to the final detail, but this one is 100% Unscripted, a narrative that’s ...

Today we're back with more on the long (and we mean long) history of the region in this special post sponsored by Vinho Verde ...