Course curriculum
-
1
Unit 1 - Welcome & Introductions
-
Foundations of Wine History - Course Description & Learning Objectives
FREE PREVIEW -
Meet Your Instructor, Tanya Morning Star Darling - Bio
FREE PREVIEW -
Welcome!
-
Recommended Reading for this Course
-
Recommended Wines to Further Learning Objectives
-
Wine History Master TImeline
-
-
2
Unit 2 - Early Discovery and Development
-
Wine and Culture
-
Discovery, First Wines
-
Origin Stories & Early Wine Trade
-
Means to Conserve Wine - Pottery
-
Vitis Vinifera - From Wild to Cultivated
-
Unit Quiz: Early Discovery and Development
-
-
3
Unit 3 - Wine in Antiquity
-
Ancient People's Timeline
-
Ancient Egypt
-
The Etruscans
-
Wine in Ancient Greece
-
The Wine God
-
Homer's Hymn to Dionysus
-
Wine in Ancient Rome
-
Pompeii and Falernum
-
Unit Quiz: Wine in Antiquity
-
-
4
Unit 4 - Wine In Religion, and the Middle Ages
-
The Fall of Rome
-
Wine in Judaism
-
Wine in Islam
-
Wine Symbolism in Persian Poetry
-
Greco Roman Wine God Symbolism and Jesus, a Comparison
-
The Holy Roman Empire - Charlemagne Shifts Power to the North
-
Christian Europe: The Catholic Church and the Roll of the Monks
-
Famine, Plague and Social Transformation
-
Unit Quiz - Wine in Religion and the Middle Ages
-
-
5
Unit 5 - Renaissance and Enlightenment
-
Acknowledgement of What is NOT Covered in This Course/Learning Unit
-
European Politics of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, and their Impact on the Wine Trade
-
The Dutch Influence
-
Botrytis Cinerea and Late Harvest Wines
-
Unit Quiz - Renaissance and Enlightenment
-
-
6
Unit 6 - The Modern Era: The Evolution of Precision in the World of Wine
-
Wine Fraud Throughout the Ages, and Early Protections
-
The Story of the Gallo Nero
-
The Three Plagues: Downy Mildew, Phylloxera, and Powdery Mildew
-
The Birth of European Wine Law
-
Correction to Wine Law Lecture
-
Current European Wine Law: Charts and Terms
-
Unit Quiz - The Modern Era
-
-
7
Unit 7 - Wrap Up
-
Final Assignment/Response
-
What's Next? Keep Exploring!
-