1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:02,080 Speaker 1: You guys. 2 00:00:02,080 --> 00:00:06,600 Speaker 2: In honor of the premiere of Searching for Spain, we 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 2: wanted to give you a little extra taste Bud exclusive. 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 2: Here's a bit from our wine episode from season one 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 2: about Mexican wine. Enjoy. 6 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:23,079 Speaker 3: I totally get how wine made it to New Spain. Yeah, 7 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:26,760 Speaker 3: just because obviously the conquest. But most people don't associate 8 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 3: wine with Mexico. 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: No, not at all, they really don't. It's not really 10 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:33,640 Speaker 1: a wine drink. I mean, people drink wine, but when 11 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: you think of Mexican alcohol, you think of the Quilao, 12 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 1: you think of Mesco, you don't think of wine. Right. So, 13 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: and it was the first country in the Americas to 14 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: have wine, to make wine, it was the very first one. 15 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: The first wine plants were planted in fifteen twenty four, 16 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: so just three years after the conquest. But just like 17 00:00:56,160 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 1: olive oil, right that we talked about, Olive oil was 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: banned in seventeen seventy seven, King Turls the third said 19 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: no more olive oil, because you're competing with our olive oil. 20 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: So this similar thing happened with wine one hundred years earlier. 21 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: In sixteen ninety nine, King Turles the Second of Spain 22 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: issued an edict prohibiting wine production. No more wine production. 23 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 1: You could only produce wine, Sacramento wine. That's it, just 24 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 1: for the charts. So of course the priests were making 25 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:28,080 Speaker 1: wines and the nuns and the nuns they weren't just 26 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: using it for you know, for church purposes. Wine making 27 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,400 Speaker 1: remained in the hands of the clergy for over a century, 28 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:39,800 Speaker 1: and then after the Mexican independence in eighteen twenty nine, 29 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,840 Speaker 1: wine making was no longer prohibited, so, right, wine making 30 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: for personal purposes was no longer prohibited, So that is 31 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: when the production of wine in Mexico began to rise again. 32 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: So it was basically smashed for about two hundred years. 33 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: So and like you said, yes, Mexican wine, it's not 34 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: really no owned for its wine, and this is why 35 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 1: it's not really known for its olive oil. And basically 36 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: this is why because the Spaniards didn't want any competition. 37 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 3: Right, but Mexican the Mexican Revolution also affected anybody who 38 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 3: had a vineyard in Mexico because they just they were 39 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,720 Speaker 3: left unattended. All that everybody had to go to war. 40 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 3: They fought that it was like this huge revolution, so 41 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 3: a lot of the lands were destroyed or like abandoned 42 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 3: by their owners. So that also set back the wine 43 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,160 Speaker 3: industry in Mexico. They've had all these obstacles, so. 44 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:30,960 Speaker 1: Many obstacles over the centuries. 45 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,360 Speaker 3: Did it even have the climate for it? Yeah, there was, Yeah, 46 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,520 Speaker 3: the very right wine in Mexico's only in Baya that Guadalupe. 47 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: Well, only ten percent of Mexico grows wine right via 48 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: the Walla Looope is the one that's most known for 49 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: wine right now. It's sort of like a big up, 50 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 1: a big up and coming thing, and it's beautiful. It 51 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: hasn't amazing whites, by the way. But the first commercially 52 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: produced wine in Mexico dates to fifteen ninety seven. This 53 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,880 Speaker 1: is in the oldest vineyard in Mexico fifteen ninety seven 54 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: that was producing commercially is in Guawela and northern Mexico, 55 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: Casa Mareo. It's still around today. And it was by 56 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: Osebio Kun. He was an Italian. 57 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,040 Speaker 3: Of course, it was Italian, of course, this is why 58 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 3: I like Italian wine. 59 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: An Italian but priest. He was a priest, he was 60 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 1: our carotographer. He was a geographer commonly referred to as Paquino. 61 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,440 Speaker 1: And there's a wine called Pattiquino. I remember, I want it. 62 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,480 Speaker 1: I remember that my grandfather used to drink this wine. 63 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: She was all about the Mexican wines. It was like 64 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: a bulbous bottle and it had like a woven net 65 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: around it, around it. I think it was a good, 66 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: cheap wine. I think it still is a cheap. This 67 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: is when he used to drink, and it was like 68 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: a thing. 69 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 3: It said that the local grapevines did not produce wine 70 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 3: of a caliber satisfactory to Spanish colonizers. 71 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: Right, so my grandfather drank it. Thank you for listening 72 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 1: to this bonus episode of Hungry for History. 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