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"Design for a South African postage stamp, advertising the Winegrowers Associations", Walter Batiss, 1978. Pen and ink and watercolour on unevenly cut paper.

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In Bohemia, viticulture began spreading from the 10th century onwards, primarily for liturgical purposes. Between the 11th and 13th centuries, vineyards were established mainly by monasteries and the nobility in locations similar to those where grapes are grown today, especially in southern Moravia. While the favorable climate initially allowed grape cultivation even in Bohemia, a later period of global cooling caused the vines to die off. Caring for grapevines occupied winemakers throughout the year, with the harvest traditionally taking place from October to November, depending on the weather. Grapes were typically cultivated in areas unsuitable for other crops, such as rocky southern slopes. Establishing a new vineyard could take three to four years, with optimal productivity lasting around thirty to forty years. The harvested grapes were collected and then poured into vats, where they were crushed by foot. White grapes were immediately pressed and stored in wooden, pitch-sealed, and sulfurised barrels where fermentation took place. Red grapes were crushed, destemmed, and left to ferment in open vats with regular stirring. This produced a substance known as “must,” which was pressed after a few days, and the entire mixture was then transferred to barrels. A great lover of wine was King Charles IV who imported cultivation methods and certain grape varieties from France and granted numerous privileges to winemakers.

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— While in the early Middle Ages vineyards were still entirely in the hands of the noble elite, this strict divide came to be loosened through wine's importance Christian mysticism. Here it was frequently needed as mass wine and became synonymous with the blood of Christ and the Eucharist. In Bohemia, the first known grants of vineyards to monasteries come from the 12th century. By the High and Late Middle Ages, wine was so strongly associated with something sacred that miracles such as Christ-like transformations of water to wine spread through many saints' tales. Prince Wenceslas I would often be depicted in the role of a monk, underlining his holiness by working on a vineyard and pressing wine, as in Karel Škréta's artwork from the 1640s. With the spread of viticulture, urban areas along major rivers like the Rhine, the Garonne or the Danube grew into proper wine towns of a high commercial significance. In the 15th century, later Pope Pius II describes the town of Vienna as being filled with wine cellars as big as the houses' outsides, and that during the 40 days of vintage 300 wagons would bring grapes into the city every day. Tax records show that more than half of the population would be involved in the wine trade in some way or another, either as owners, vine dressers, merchants or transporters. By far the biggest workforce on vineyards, however, came from a group not included in taxes: Wage labourers, often migrant workers without any guild organisation, often housed by the owners and hired only by the day instead of on a seasonal basis, working for little wage and bad conditions. Such bad conditions that they would regularly lead to strikes and revolts, such as in April 1597, ending in a brutal suppression with the leaders of the riot executed.

Wine towns like Vienna were generally strict about their wine regulations. Storage and sales rights were limited to wine produced by locals within a limited territory around the town, tax on purchased wine-must was twice as high as that on must grown in a citizen's own vineyard. For Vienna, the wine trade was so important that during vintage all other businesses, including council meetings, came to a halt, and during the city's siege by the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus in 1483, the city is said to have paid their besiegers a ransom of 3,000 Hungarian florins to allow the grape harvest to be brought inside

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France's Languedoc winegrowers are already adapting to climate change

Over the past 30 years, the harvest of France’s Languedoc wines has progressed by three weeks and the alcohol content of the wine has risen by four points. Faced with the already sensitive impact of climate change, the region’s winegrowers are adapting their practices and grape varieties. EURACTIV France reports.

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As the thermometer rose to 46°C last summer, bunches of grapes and leaves toasted in Robin Williamson’s vines of his Domaine de Saumarez in the Hérault region of France, which led to him losing half his harvest.

Although 2019 was one of the most devastating years for Languedoc wine, it was not, however, the first manifestation of climate change in the region. “Some years, we harvest as early as mid-August, although the harvest used to be in September,” said the winegrower.

This observation is confirmed by Jean-Marc Touzard, a researcher at France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE).

The rise in temperatures is responsible for an average three-week delay in harvesting since the 1980s, Touzard confirmed. The heat also changes the nature of the fruit, which contains more sugar and less acid. As a result, wines that used to have an alcohol content of around 11% are now at 14% or even 15%.

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They will eventually be obliged to move production northward and in so doing the characteristics of the wines will change. This will apply to all winegrowers.

England is already producing sparkling wine to rival Champagne (it’s grown on the same chalk layer found in France) which is lucky for them since leaving the EU will make Champagne more expensive and the Brits quaff more of the stuff then anybody else apart from the French (they import more than the entire US which comes third).

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Winegrowers up in arms about emoji snub

Winegrowers up in arms about emoji snub

It’s officially white whine season.

Vintners and aficionados are up in arms over the glaring absence of an official white wine emoji on iPhones and Android devices, despite a yearlong campaign by maker Kendall-Jackson to convince Unicode (the organization that “controls” emojis) to add the symbol.

“I’m outraged,” said NYC wine auctioneer Charles Antin. “The lack of a white wine or rosé emoji is…

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