Winemaking in the Middle Ages | The Process, Taste, Storage and Use

00:00 Introduction
00:36 The Meaning Behind Wine
01:22 The Advantages of Grapes and Wine
02:00 Monastic Wine Production
02:39 Medieval Wine Producers
03:04 England, a Leader of Wine Production
03:40 Centers of Wine Production
04:01 What did Medieval Wine Taste Like?
05:09 Reviving and Preserving Wine
05:56 Wine for the Lower Classes
06:36 Drunks in the Middle Ages
07:31 Medieval Mulled Wine
08:22 The Development of Glass Wine Bottles
10:09 The Process of Making Wine
11:23 What is Pigeage? Why are Grapes Stomped on?
12:50 The Vineroon and Vintager
13:43 The Vintner / Vinter
14:53 Outro

Music by Vindsvept (Lake of Light)

[ultrasuperkiller]

I absolutely love this channel and this series in paticular!

[ParkerDai]

When someone complains about drinking this, I tell them to stop their wining

[norik]

Excellent video. It's fascinating to me that even something like a glass wine bottle (which to us seems almost archaic) was a major advancement of the modern age. As a chemist it's always interesting seeing how radically the advances in glassmaking technology of the early modern period transformed every aspect of people's lives. It was thanks to his discovery of traditional Bohemian glass-blowing during his travels to Prague that Justus von Liebig was able to create such devices as the condenser and the kaliapparat, standardizing the use of glassware in laboratories and single-handedly paving the way for the entire field of synthetic organic chemistry (which prior to the use of glassware was basically impossible since the metal and wooden vessels used by his predecessors would react with the analytes).

I would love to see a video on the medieval professions and technologies relating to glass-making.

[McHaven]

great video, man! really interesting stuff! and almost perfect for the region i'm currently writing about, lol

[cupriferouscatalyst]

I can't believe I'm the first to point this out, but the "cat-lick church" edit at 2:06 was so unexpected and funny that I almost choked on my clementine

[ThcPatient]

I'm definitely rating my intoxication level by animals from now on.

[poginston]

I’m writing a D&D adventure that takes place at a vineyard, and this was very helpful

[maincoon]

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[StrikaAmaru]

6:25 Pomace can also be fermented and distilled into a (really shitty) alcoholic drink.
7:10 (so that's why there's a saying that someone's 'drunk as a pig').
14:10 That's hilarious, because in Romania a 'vatman' is someone who drives a tram. Probably no relation to winemaking, and every relation to wattage.

[cmachinist]

Your videos are all amazing. What music is this that you use in many of your videos?

[keithwilson]

who here watching and drinking there homemade wine lol i am and i have a problem with never letitng age very long but still taste alright and percents range from 16 to 19 percent use champagne yeast and yeast feeders 2 to 3 pounds of sugar per gallon and one pack of yeast for 3 to 5 gallons . any tips any one would like to hear

[rshammer]

I have these wine tags that are very old. They are bronze or copper. Please get back to me. I need to know all the info I can about these. CPR logo or tags

[Jerry]

How can I contact you. I have questions of Kos wine in the mid 1400s.

[rshammer]

I'm not sure how to comment and send you a picture. Please get back to me. I have a few hundred pieces of lead that I found along with these copper bronze tags.

[BlaBla-pfmf]

Oak barrels are excellent for storing alcoholic drinks as they impart a complex flavor. The main taste profile of whiskey, brandy, rum and certain fancy wines comes from the barrels in which they are aged, not from the drinks themselves. Barrels are not in any way inferior to clay pots which have poorer sealing so they needed to use strong tasting resin as a sealant which gives the retsina wine it's awful taste.

[theshadow]

I personally believe that medieval cuisine is not nearly as miserable as we portray it. These people worked with ingredients that were grown and harvested essentially in their yards. Add on the fact that growing food was their livelihood and that all their food was 'organic' doesnt sound like the horror show we make it out to be. Finally, medieval people were still human. They wouldve found the best food and drink they could get. None of this leads me to believe that they would make bad wine too. Sure, maybe out of a desire to not waste, they would drink old, sour wine. But if all wine was bad, they wouldnt have gone through the trouble of developing an industry and culture around it. Imagine an industry developed around a food that is universally disliked and poor tasting. It makes no sense to me. So this assertion that medieval wine tastes bad is something i dont subscribe to.

[izzzzzz]

i bet 2000 years ago wine was better than it is today.

[havock]

Its not the basis of communion... lol.. corellation doesnt equate to causation dude. you lost me with that.

[stuarthanberry]

Lmao, once again religion screws everything up