I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, World exhibitions were frequently held in the 1800s and you could say perhaps

that this was the true start of globalization, the grand expositions held in major cities,

attracted people from all over Europe and the states and the world.

And it was at such places that ideas were exchanged, deals were made, and cultures collided.

If we take a look at one exhibition in particular, we find that it had particularly lasting effects

on today's culture and especially on today's

wine culture.

The Paris Exposition of 1889 and 1890.

The Exposition was meant to mark the 100 year anniversary of the storming of the Bastille.

This was a huge event for which the Eiffel Tower was created.

Construction workers even worked all night long the night before the

exposition to make it safer visitors to enter.

At this exposition, Claude Debussy heard the Gamalan orchestras of Valley, which has influenced composition ever since.

Annie Oakley and Buffalo Bill performed a Wild Wild West show for thousands of people.

And Whistler, Gogon, and Van Gogh were all in attendance.

The largest diamond in the known world was on display, and Thomas Edison was there to see it.

In fact, Edison's stand in the hall of machinery

was one of the most crowded.

A correspondent for the New York Times noted,

there is no use in trying to epitomize the exhibition in routine, for it partakes of all

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