{"id":16548,"date":"2022-04-16T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T22:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winebus.es\/?p=16548"},"modified":"2024-02-29T18:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T17:40:21","slug":"history-of-spanish-wine-seen-from-ribera-del-duero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winebus.es\/en\/2022\/04\/16\/history-of-spanish-wine-seen-from-ribera-del-duero\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Spanish wine seen from Ribera del Duero"},"content":{"rendered":"
The history of wine begins 5,000 years before Christ in China, Mesopotamia, and Georgia.<\/p>\n
Burning sun and some grapes begin to ferment. Someone eats those grapes and starts laughing nonstop.<\/p>\n
1000 years before Christ are the Phoenicians<\/a>, good merchants, and navigators who bring the culture of wine to the Iberian Peninsula.<\/p>\n Later, the Romans came to Spain. They were very good fighters but also organized fantastic parties in which wine would be always present.<\/p>\n Then the Visigoths. At that time the Monasteries and the Catholic church preserved the culture of wine<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the Arab presence, it was a dark stage since the Muslims were forbidden to drink wine.<\/p>\n In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and with the unification of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon and the conquest of the kingdom of Granada, communication routes were safe and certain towns were famous for their wines. Among them, certain towns of what was already called Ribera del Duero stood out. Innkeepers from 100 miles around traveled to these towns to buy their wines. They did it with their carriages pulled by mules or horses. It could take them 3 days to arrive and another 3 days to come back.<\/p>\n At that time the dangerous thing was to drink water because it could be contaminated by the excrement of cows and sheep. Drinking wine was much better for his health and for his soul.<\/p>\n The problem was keeping the wine in good condition. It occurred to them that by digging underground cellars<\/a> the wine could be kept in good condition by being at a cool temperature, without light and without noise.<\/p>\n The French were the first to make quality wines.<\/p>\nMedieval wine in Ribera del Duero<\/h2>\n
France forerunner of the production of quality wines. Wooden barrels.<\/h2>\n