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Vintage: A History of Wine; Sipping Stars
12/09/1988
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- Series
- Vintage: A History of Wine
- Program
- Sipping Stars
- Program Number
107
- Series Description
Vintage visits some of the world's most magnificent locales to tell the story of wine from ancient times to the present. Some of the highlights of this tour include: Wine's birth thousands of years ago in the Caucasus mountains, where bare footed Soviet Georgians still tread grapes in the manner of their ancestors; how Magellan circumnavigated the globe on a ship stocked with more sherry than armaments; the German super vintage of 1540 & how one surviving bottle tasted in 1964; the 5 acre plot in France that yields the world's most expensive burgundy; how a wine industry in Japan is flourishing Series release date: 1/1989
- Program Description
Series Description: Vintage visits some of the world's most magnificent locales to tell the story of wine from ancient times to the present. Some of the highlights of this tour include: Wine's birth thousands of years ago in the Caucasus mountains, where bare footed Soviet Georgians still tread grapes in the manner of their ancestors; how Magellan circumnavigated the globe on a ship stocked with more sherry than armaments; the German super vintage of 1540 & how one surviving bottle tasted in 1964; the 5 acre plot in France that yields the world's most expensive burgundy; how a wine industry in Japan is flourishing
- Duration
00:30:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Travel
- Creators
- WGBH in association with Channel Four (Series Producer)
- Gill, Michael (Series Producer)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Vintage: A History of Wine; Sipping Stars,” 12/09/1988, GBH Archives, accessed October 2, 2023, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D5E98AC186934E2E93B1D9D6E4465CC5.
- MLA: “Vintage: A History of Wine; Sipping Stars.” 12/09/1988. GBH Archives. Web. October 2, 2023. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D5E98AC186934E2E93B1D9D6E4465CC5>.
- APA: Vintage: A History of Wine; Sipping Stars. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_D5E98AC186934E2E93B1D9D6E4465CC5