The Romans brought vines to Pannonia, and by the 5th century AD, there are records of extensive vineyards in Hungary.

The former were to bring saplings and vines with which to build a rough wall around the clearing.

He brought vines from Cape Cod and planted them in the state's first cranberry bog near Hauser.

The Italians brought vines that they called Bonarda, although Argentine Bonarda appears to be the Douce noir of Savoie, also known as Charbono in California.

In the 12th century the rise of the Republic of Venice brought vines and wine cultivation which blossomed into a major industry for the island in the Middle Ages.

Benedictines and Cistercians from the great German and French monasteries almost certainly brought vines with them, including the ancestor of albarino.

The story goes that in 1780 Karl Friedrich, Grand Duke of Baden brought vines from Chiavenna in Italy, halfway between Tramin and the Jura, which was known to the Germans as Cleven.

He had brought vines from the Cape of Good Hope, found a species resistant to blight, took a sample of his wine to London in 1822 and won a silver medal for it.

He would like to bring female vines back to California to increase his vineyards' productivity.

Mexican wine and wine making began with the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, when they brought vines from Europe to modern day Mexico, the oldest wine-growing region in the Americas.