The craft of fermenting the juice of Vitis vinifera grapes into wine. The earliest chemically confirmed evidence comes from Neolithic pottery jars at Gadachrili Gora and Shulaveris Gora in present-day Georgia, dated to the Early Ceramic Neolithic. Traditional Georgian winemaking still ferments and ages wine, skins and all, in large buried clay vessels called qvevri, a method UNESCO has listed as intangible cultural heritage.
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Origin RegionThe South Caucasus (present-day Georgia), on current chemical evidence; the Zagros Mountains of Iran are a rival early candidate site specialists still weigh, the same tension already recorded on the Wine entity itself. 1 Origin Period, From (Year) Connections
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Source On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the KitchenHarold McGee
Source On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the KitchenHarold McGee
Source Georgian Cuisine (Wikipedia)
Wine, Drinks Source Archaeologists Find Earliest Evidence of Winemaking (ScienceDaily)
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1. Archaeologists Find Earliest Evidence of Winemaking (ScienceDaily)
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Excavations have focused on two Early Ceramic Neolithic sites (6000-4500 BC) called Gadachrili Gora and Shulaveris Gora, approximately 50 kilometres south of the modern capital of Tbilisi.
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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.
Georgian Cuisine (Wikipedia)
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Georgia is the oldest wine-producing region in the world...for at least 8000 years.
On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
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