Random information #8

How old is wine?

In a previous post we saw the bread is old.
Some of you may have noticed I also like wine because of this post, this post, this one, this one also and finally this one.

Uffff… that’s a lot of wine.
And more will come!

Today I learned researchers recently found wine is older than we thought.

"Excavations in the Republic of Georgia have uncovered evidence of the earliest winemaking anywhere in the world. The discovery dates the origin of the practice to the Neolithic period around 6000 BC, pushing it back 600-1,000 years from the previously accepted date.”

“The earliest previously known chemical evidence of wine dated to 5400-5000 BC and was from an area in the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Researchers now say the practice began hundreds of years earlier in the South Caucasus region on the border of Eastern Europe and Western Asia.”

So I guess wine is 8000 years old! It’s a good thing they invented it. I’m looking forward to my next WinExperience.

Sources and additional information:
University of Toronto. "Archaeologists find earliest evidence of winemaking: Discovery of 8,000-year-old wine production in ancient Middle East." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 13 November 2017.
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You can also find the study here

Patrick McGovern, Mindia Jalabadze, Stephen Batiuk, Michael P. Callahan, Karen E. Smith, Gretchen R. Hall, Eliso Kvavadze, David Maghradze, Nana Rusishvili, Laurent Bouby, Osvaldo Failla, Gabriele Cola, Luigi Mariani, Elisabetta Boaretto, Roberto Bacilieri, Patrice This, Nathan Wales, David Lordkipanidze. Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017; 201714728 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1714728114

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