{"id":25,"date":"2015-02-03T15:52:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T21:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2015-02-03T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T22:07:35","slug":"historical-origins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/about\/historical-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Historical Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chateau-epoque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-29 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chateau-epoque.jpg\" alt=\"chateau-epoque\" width=\"234\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chateau-epoque.jpg 234w, http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chateau-epoque-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/chateau-epoque-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a> The origins of the Confr\u00e9rie Saint-Etienne can be traced back to the 14th Century. Every December 26th, Saint-Etienne\u2019s (Saint Stephen\u2019s) Day, the guild of notables of Ammerschwihr, near Colmar, met for their annual feast. One of the guild\u2019s functions was to oversee the quality of the local wines, and as their annual feast was such a magnificent event, the population began to call the guild the Confr\u00e9rie (Brotherhood) of Saint-Etienne.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Confr\u00e9rie Saint-Etienne is considered to be one of the oldest wine brotherhoods in France, and its original rules and regulations dating back to 1561 are still in use.<\/p>\n<p>After a long period of prosperity, it slowly began to decline after the French Revolution and faded away in 1848. In 1947, the Confr\u00e9rie was reborn in its current form, thanks to the efforts of a group of winegrowers and Alsace wine devotees led by Joseph Dreyer, its Founder-Treasurer, with a mission to promote the knowledge and appreciation of Alsace wines.<br \/>\nIn 1973 it established its headquarters in the Ch\u00e2teau de Kientzheim, near Kaysersberg, which was built in 1563 by Baron Lazare de Schwendi, an imperial general who was also a great connoisseur of wine.<\/p>\n<p>During its history, the Ch\u00e2teau has belonged to various families, including General Monclar, Georges-Andr\u00e9 de Golb\u00e9ry and, lastly, the Castex family, who sold it to the Confr\u00e9rie in 1973. Since then, major restoration work has taken place, notably the construction of a magnificent cellar housing more than 60,000 bottles: the celebrated Oenoth\u00e8que (wine library) of the Confr\u00e9rie, with vintages dating as far back as 1834.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origins of the Confr\u00e9rie Saint-Etienne can be traced back to the 14th Century. Every December 26th, Saint-Etienne\u2019s (Saint Stephen\u2019s) Day, the guild of notables of Ammerschwihr, near Colmar, met for their annual feast. One of the guild\u2019s functions was to oversee the quality of the local wines, and as their annual feast was such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/about\/historical-origins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Historical Origins<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/38"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.confrerie.org\/csewp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}