Wine from the United Kingdom Normans, with over 40 vineyards in England mentioned in the Domesday Book, although much of what was being produced was for making communion wine for the Eucharist. From the Middle Ages, the English market was the main customer of clarets from Bordeaux, France, helped by the Plantagenet kingdom, which included England and large provinces in France. In the 18th century, the Methuen Treaty of 1703 imposed high duties on French wine. This led to the English becoming a main consumer of sweet fortified wines like sherry, port wine, and Madeira wine from Spain and Portugal. Fortified wine became popular because
Wine Country Broadcasting Wine Country Broadcasting Wine Country Broadcasting Company is a small San Francisco, California, United States, based radio broadcasting company that owns a translator in Calistoga and a repeater in Cordelia, California. Wine Country Broadcasting, a California corporation, is owned by the Roger O. Walther SP Trust, and administered by the Tusker Corporation of San Francisco (a Delaware corporation). The trust is administered by Roger O. Walther and Anne Newton Walther, husband and wife. Roger O. Walther is the Chairman and CEO of Tusker. Wine Country Broadcasting bought the properties, along with KVON and KVYN, in 2003 from Charles B. Moss