14 Interesting Facts About Bastille Day—July 14th

• Posted on 9 July 2019
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1. The public holiday in France on July 14th is not called “Bastille Day” at all! It is called “la Fête Nationale” (“The National Holiday), or “le Quatorze Juillet” (“July 14th”). July 14 commemorates the date that a group of anti-monarchists broke into the Bastille, a prison in central Paris, on July 14, 1789. The Bastille was rumored to have housed many political dissidents who were locked up by tyrannical rulers.

One of Wine’s “Pioneer Women” – Carol Shelton

• Posted on 18 June 2019
• Posted in 22 Pirates, California, Carignane, Carol Shelton, Cinsault, grenache, Petite Sirah, rose, Syrah, Wild Thing Wines, zinfandel
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Carol Shelton was born and raised in Rochester, New York, and then moved to San Mateo, California. She went to the University of California Davis (UC Davis,) studying poetry, though having an undeclared major until the fateful day, in her freshman year, when she took a tour of Sebastiani Winery.