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 ...

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

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 ...

The History of Beer and Wine Production At the time, people knew that leaving fruits and grains in covered containers for a long time produced wine and beer, but no one fully understood why the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...