Food and Drink Atlas

How The World Eats
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme

Wine and Fortified Wines

Beverages fermented from grapes or other fruit and, where fortified, blended with a distilled spirit, following the standard wine-industry classification. Belongs here: Champagne, Cider, Mead, Mulled Wine, Port Wine, Prosecco, Sherry, Vermouth, Wine. Does not belong here: a sap-fermented beverage such as palm wine, grouped under fermented beverages and beer despite the shared name.

Facts
Comparison
Era of EmergenceSourced to the subject's own account
6000 BCE 1
Browse By
Sources
1. Drink (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDrink, History section, wine paragraph
Quote, Drink, History section, wine paragraph
the earliest production so far discovered having occurred c. 6000 BC in Georgia.
View the Source
Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.