In the wine world history changes in sips, not dramatic gulps — most of the time, anyway. Sometimes, there are events that change everything we knew. Here are five events that altered the history of wine in ways we are still feeling today.

In the 1930s and 1940s, French winemaking families could easily pay off even the steepest wine inheritance tax within one harvest season. Today, paying off inheritance taxes on vineyards can take 10 years or more on family-run estates.

Wine has three levels of flavors and aromas that evolve over the course of its life: primary, secondary and tertiary.

Both regions produce age-worthy, Tempranillo-based red wines with bold fruit flavors and notes of toast and spice.

You are a host of a party, you guests are coming while white wines are not cool yet.

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The history of the Bordeaux wine region dates back to the ancient Romans who were the first people to cultivate, plant vineyards and produce Bordeaux wine. 

When you hear the phrase “sweet wine,” you might immediately think of a candy-like liquid that runs across your tongue. But that’s not the fairest description of this delicious wine. Sweet wines offers a variety of flavors, fragrances, and finishes.

Russian River Valley are luscious wines that every collector should experience at least once in a lifetime.

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Burgundy, also called Bourgogne, is a wine region in France that produces some of the most expensive wines in the world. The classic, Old World wines from Burgundy are considered benchmarks for the rest of the world.

How a wine was made can predict the sweetness of the final bottling. Sweet wines can be made with late-harvest wines, or by halting an ongoing fermentation with alcohol, temperature or sulfites, or in some cases, adding a sweeting agent after fermentation. They can be made from any variety in a location suitable for growing.

Barolo is the home to Italian Fine Wines; and Michele Chiarlo is the leading winery in the region. They focus on selling high-quality Barolo wines, which is very trendy currently.