Bastille Day and the wine revolution
The French Revolution changed lives forever around the world, and not least in the way we drink wine today
Today is Bastille Day, the French National Day and commemoration of the start of the French Revolution in 1789, arguably the most important political revolution the world has yet seen. The modern world was born on July 14, 1789.
Now, those are fighting words, especially as the American Revolution had taken place 13 years earlier in 1776 and the English Revolution, which had established a Commonwealth and executed a King, had happened some ...
