From the Middle Ages to its glory days in the 18th century, the prized wines of the Ile de France, the Paris region, stocked the cellars of French kings and clergymen and covered over 100,000 acres of land. These wines were also well known in medieval literature, and figure in several poems extolling the virtues of these wines. The Revolution, vine disease and urbanisation … [Lees meer...] overRenaissance of the Wines of Paris – Ile de France