1917

Though bars were still hopping in the United States in 1917 before our nation entered the throes of World War I, across the pond in Europe things were quite different. The continent was in upheaval as the war raged on, and in some of the world’s most recognizable wine regions, things weren’t much better. What were wines like 100 years ago?

In regions close to war like Champagne, their 1917 vintage was only rated at 65 points according to th...

One backs women, children and old men, in the vintage year 1917 at the harvest in Bordeaux. At that time, all the men almost were in the war. With an early harvest beginning simple wines could be brought in. The durability was not of great duration and the wines can be considered risky today.

Port Vintage: Declared by many producers, despite the wartime situation. Michael Broadbent characterises this Vintage as “light, supple, elegant and attractive.”

The 8th of March, the earl Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor and maker of the flying machine which has its name, died at the age of 78. In the early morning of the 15th of October, the famous dancer, Mata Hari, is shot in the Vincennes wood. The 7th of November (25th of October for the Russian calendar), the soviet revolution took place. The red Guardians headed by LОon Trotsky entered in Petrograd and took the Winter Palace, residence of the tsar and refuge of the government.