{"id":102847,"date":"2026-10-05T02:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102847"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T18:43:11","slug":"tom-holland-explains-the-entire-history-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/tom-holland-explains-the-entire-history-of-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland Explains the Entire History of Wine in 72 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fo4ZR8hpQ3s?si=atUQzM1spRoPxtO0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Rest Is History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 5 May 2026<\/p>\n<p>What does <em>The Odyssey<\/em> teach us about the history of wine in the ancient world? How did Julius Caesar use wine to conquer the world? And why was The Judgement of Paris &#8211; when America took on France &#8211; the most controversial incident in the history of wine?<\/p>\n<p>Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss the long history of wine; from ancient Jordan, to Bronze Age Greece, to the Vikings, and beyond &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>00:00 The complete history of wine in 8,000 years<br \/>\n00:41 Lloyds<br \/>\n02:14 Pliny the Elder and the first wine snob<br \/>\n06:02 Why wine is such a rich subject for history<br \/>\n09:27 Noah, Mount Ararat and the biblical origins of wine<br \/>\n11:31 Georgia, Armenia and the world&#8217;s first wineries<br \/>\n13:15 The Canaanites and the invention of the wine trade<br \/>\n16:19 The Phoenicians, Greeks and wine culture across the Mediterranean<br \/>\n18:32 How Rome created the first international wine culture<br \/>\n20:32 Wine, slavery and the Roman conquest of Gaul<br \/>\n23:12 Italy becomes the heartland of Roman wine<br \/>\n24:40 How Christianity preserved wine after Rome&#8217;s fall<br \/>\n27:22 Why Islam transformed the history of wine<br \/>\n30:09 Wine drinking, loopholes and the caliphs<br \/>\n33:41 Rumi, Sufism and wine as a metaphor for divine love<br \/>\n37:29 England and the invention of the modern wine bottle<br \/>\n40:08 Kenelm Digby and the rise of English bottles<br \/>\n43:22 Cork, port and the Methuen Treaty<br \/>\n45:12 The English invention of the corkscrew<br \/>\n47:10 How French became the language of wine<br \/>\n50:07 Samuel Pepys discovers Haut-Brion<br \/>\n52:33 First growths, Bordeaux and the hierarchy of wine<br \/>\n56:09 Why wine was once an elite English obsession<br \/>\n57:49 Terroir and the spiritual language of French wine<br \/>\n1:00:59 The Judgment of Paris<br \/>\n1:03:57 Prohibition and the collapse of Californian wine<br \/>\n1:06:19 The blind tasting that humiliated France<br \/>\n1:08:08 Stag&#8217;s Leap and California\u2019s victory<br \/>\n1:09:11 How New World wine changed the industry<br \/>\n1:10:44 Wine, competition and partnership<br \/>\n1:11:46 Henry Jeff, the bonus episode and the Mona Lisa<\/p>\n<p>Video Editor: Jack Meek, Adam Thornton &#038; Harry Swan<br \/>\nSocial Producer: Harry Balden<br \/>\nProducers: Aaliyah Akude &#038; Tabby Syrett<br \/>\nSenior Producer: Callum Hill<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Dom Johnson<br \/>\nHead of Digital &#038; Social: Sam Oakley<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rest Is History Published 5 May 2026 What does The Odyssey teach us about the history of wine in the ancient world? How did Julius Caesar use wine to conquer the world? And why was The Judgement of Paris &#8211; when America took on France &#8211; the most controversial incident in the history of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[62,1117,1526,7,339,131],"tags":[1527,977,1139,35,148,47,1343,1345,1604],"class_list":["post-102847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-greece","category-history","category-italy","category-wine","tag-ancientgreece","tag-bordeaux","tag-bronzeage","tag-california","tag-georgia","tag-islam","tag-romanempire","tag-romanrepublic","tag-therestishistory"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qKP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102848,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102847\/revisions\/102848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}