Georgian Jars Hold 8,000-Year-Old Winemaking Clues
Scientists have found evidence of ancient winemaking in Georgia, a country which prides itself on its vino. It's the earliest trace of viniculture using wild grapes similar to those used today.
Anthropologist , at the University of Pennsylvania, has been pursuing the origins of wine for many years, and that search took him to the mountainous areas east of the Black Sea, in what is today Georgia, Armenia, and Iran. "Everything pointed This is where the ancestors of today's wine grapes first grew wild. And ancient writings from civilizations that emerged in this region show that wine was already an established part of the culture thousands of years ago. "Judaism, Christianity, and even Islam, all have wine incorporated into them, and that goes back very early," McGovern says.
