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19.04.2022

WINE IS LIFE!

WINE, ASSOCIATED WITH PLEASURE AND CONVIVIALITY, HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONSIDERED ONE OF THE TREASURES OF HUMANITY.

A STORY OF PASSION

If the beginnings of viticulture date back to 7000 years BC, the vine is one of the oldest plants on earth. It was the Greeks who implanted it throughout the Mediterranean basin, in Italy, then in Gaul in 600 BC. At the fall of the Roman Empire, the Church developed its cultivation and the marketing of wine.

THE PRAISE OF TASTE AND FLAVOURS

The taste of this particularly popular ancestral drink evolves quite naturally over the centuries. The wines of antiquity were cut with water and embellished with aromatic herbs, in the Middle Ages their flavours were closer to those we know today. At that time, French men, women and children consumed three litres per person per day, from breakfast to supper! It was also used for cooking, washing, preserving or desalinating food. Until the 13th century, consumption was almost exclusively limited to very acidic white wines. During the Renaissance, meals, hunting lunches and festive 

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