
Women wine history
Here you’ll find some drawings about wines and their specific harmony with the drinker attitude and clothes.
Women wine history
Women probably discovered wine as they were providing 80% of the food for the community in palaeolithic time.
4th Century BC, Ancient Greece. Greek woman into Ademientos’farm having a nice rest after harvest time.
4th Century BC. Ademientos’ daughters during the Panathenea celebration held in Athens, a multi-day ancient Greek festival to celebrate the Goddess Athena.
Octavia Mecenius after she has stolen the wine cellar keys and before she was beaten to death by her husband for that mischief. Romulus time, Roman empire.
Cleopatra, who ruled Egypt from 51 to 20 BCE. She created with Mark Antony the Inimitable Livers Society, a cult to Dionysus. The story says her favourite wine was the Brachietto D’Acqui, a sparkling red Italian wine.on goes here
Alienor D’aquitaine, 12th Century. She is the one at the origin of the Wine partnership between Bordeaux and England.
Josephine Sauvage d’Yquem (1768-1851) in her vineyard, Chateau d’Yquem, Sauternes, Bordeaux, France. She has discovered the effect of Botrytis Cinerea (also called “noble rot”) on grapes, a specific variety of fungus that helps to create some of the most iconic sweet white wine. She also decided to pick up every single grape at their maturity. During the revolution, she managed to get out of jail against some bottles of her wine.
La Veuve Pommery (1819-1890) turning the Champagne in the Cellar, creator of the Champagne Brut which became a huge success amongst English customers.
Lilith, winemaker in the Drôme, France, working in Biodynamics to produce organic wine, with some grapes that are up to 115 year old called Grenache (2025).
Here you’ll find some drawings about wines and their specific harmony with the drinker attitude and clothes.