What do you think, what should be the aging of the wine, that it was high quality and delicious? Experts say that the maximum period of the aging process of the beverage reaches 150 years, and it only applies to fortified and dessert types. Well, how about wine, the aging period which has 8 thousand years?
Until recently the earliest evidence of winemaking was found in the North-Western part of Iran – it was pottery Dating from 5400-5000 years BC. In the course of recent excavations at two archaeological sites in Georgia were discovered clay pots with images of vines and dancers.
According to the researchers, the walls of the eight vessels that resemble traditional ceramics Georgian qvevri, a chemical found telltale signs of wine.
Stephen Batiuk, a participant of dig and senior researcher at the University of Toronto, believes that wine is Central to civilization that lives in the middle East.
«As a drug, the method of rapprochement, psychotropic substance and a valuable commodity, wine became the center of religious cults, medicine, cuisine, economy and society in the ancient East,» commented Batiuk.
As it became known, the old wine not made from grapes found in China. The experts found that it made about 7 thousand years BC. This wine is a fermented alcoholic beverage made from rice, honey and fruit.
All these findings confirm that wine is one of the oldest alcoholic beverages that played an important role in many ancient cultures around the world.
