History
United Nations of Wine was founded by David John Bate. David is a 4th generation Canadian and the 13th recorded generation of the Bate family, a bloodline of English and Swiss origins that traces its heritage back to the times of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon and the reign of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I in England and the Ancien Régime in Switzerland. Indeed, the name ‘Bate’ is derived from the olde English surname ‘Bartholem...