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First oat milk
Surely Oatly - a barista's best friend - wasn't the first oat milk in the world? Turns out we've been extracting 'milk' from one of our favourite cereal crops for 1000s of years...
3 days ago9 min read


First Prosecco
Prosecco is an Italian sparkling wine that has been made for millennia. But where did it originate? And who first wrote about Prosecco?
May 259 min read


First wine cork
How and why did a bit of tree bark start being used for closing wine bottles? And who was the first person to think it was a good idea?
Oct 16, 202511 min read


First ice wine
Ice wine (Eiswein in German) is a type of dessert wine that can only be produced in teeth-chatteringly cold climates
Aug 13, 20215 min read
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