The History of Wine — The Drink That Ran Empires

An invisible killer that brought France to its knees, a monk who tried to destroy champagne’s bubbles, and the first drink ever consumed on the Moon 🍷 This video traces wine’s incredible 8,000-year journey from clay jars in the Caucasus mountains to the tombs of pharaohs, the rations of Roman legions, the cellars of medieval monks, the Great French Wine Blight, Prohibition’s grape bricks, and the blind tasting that shocked the world. A story of empire, faith, disaster, and survival.

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Chapters
00:00 The Invisible Killer
00:55 Back to the Beginning
01:10 The Drink That Invents Itself
05:00 Pharaohs, Merchants, and Philosophers
09:00 Rome: The Empire Engine
10:30 The Monks and the Bubbles
12:15 The Great Wine Blight
14:30 Prohibition and the Tasting That Shocked the World
16:30 Space Wine and Communion on the Moon
18:00 Eight Thousand Years in a Glass
19:50 Outro