April showers bring May flowers… Aaaaaaand, with flowers come bees, bees make honey, people turn honey into Mead. Boom. Mead is a “honey wine” (actually, not ‘wine‘ as wine comes from a fruit base, but we’ll dive into that in another post later this summer…) that is made…
May Flowers…for Mead!
Off The Beaten Path: Algeria
Algerian wine today is dying, almost dead completely in fact. There is an initiative to try and revitalize the Algerian wine industry, but to date, it hasn’t affected any revitalization or change, yet with time, that might change. This isn’t to say wine is not made in Algeria…
The Invention of Wine
While it wasn’t until the excavation of the Areni-1 winery in Armenia (2007-2010) that we found the earliest evidence of wine production which dates to 4100 BC, the actual true date of the invention of wine has yet to be pinpointed as of yet. There is evidence reaching…