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Last Minute Valentine's Day Wine Gifts

Larry Leigon's Secret Life of Wine Newsletter #105

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Feb 12, 2023
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Who Invented Valentine’s Day Anyway?

That would be Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 1300’s and Hallmark Cards in 1913. It’s a romantic holiday completely ungrounded in the real world or real world rituals which makes it even better for celebrating lovers.

Geoffrey Chaucer was the author of Canterbury Tales and the “Father of English Poetry”. Chaucer and Shake…

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