Wine lovers

In this Wine lexicon numerous famous wine lovers are mentioned with their drinking habits and preferred alcoholic beverages. The first part covers those persons for whom there is also a special keyword. Of course, these are not comprehensive biographies, but the focus is on everything that is related to wine, viticulture and wine enjoyment in a narrower sense. For the personalities in the second part, there is no separate keyword, but the wines and wine-growing regions are mentioned. The indication of favourite drinks is not to be understood absolutely, however, because other brands were certainly also appreciated. In the case of the specified spirits, it is at any rate demonstrably known that they were enjoyed by the personalities concerned or at least were in their possession.

Famous persons with their own keyword

• the Spanish scholar Arnaldus de Villanova
• the Roman poet and politician Ausonius
• the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven
• the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
• the owner of the champagne house of the same name Elizabeth "Lily" Bollinger
• the German composer Johannes Brahms
• the Roman author Columella
• the US director Francis Ford Coppola
• the opera character Falstaff
• the Prussian King Frederick II the Great
• the legendary King of Uruk Gilgamesh
• the German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• the Persian poet Hafis
• the Austrian composer Joseph Haydn
• the mystic and abbess Hildegard von Bingen
• the Greek physician Hippocrates
• the Frankish ruler Charlemagne
• the Persian poet Khayyam
• the Austrian ruler Maria Theresa
• the French King Henry IV

• US President Thomas Jefferson
• the Roman general Julius Caesar
• the Austrian poet Nikolaus Lenau
• the French "Sun King"...