Thanks C19fan.
Posted on 11/14/2017 6:38:30 AM PST by C19fan
he world's earliest evidence of grape wine-making has been detected in 8,000-year-old pottery jars unearthed in Georgia, making the tradition almost 1,000 years older than previously thought, researchers said Monday.
Before, the oldest chemical evidence of wine in the Near East dated to 5,400-5,000 BC (about 7,000 years ago) and was from the Zagros Mountains of Iran, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer-reviewed US journal.
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“Just some good ole boys...”
Oh wait, wrong Georgia.
Ah, _that_ Georgia.
Not this one.
BTW: The remains of the oldest brewery in North America are on Jekyll Island*, Georgia.
(* - yes, _that_ Jekyll Island.)
Near east Georgia...not the US Ga. :)
Naw, that was White Lightnin’!.............
Neanderthals driving a donkey cart with a rebel flag on top!..................
Wine literally makes itself: just needs a vessel to ferment in. If sturdy/durable pottery is the benchmark for antiquity they could be thousands of years off here, too. Dried animal stomachs would have worked.
Thanks C19fan.
Amazing how most people have forgotten so quickly what all knew for millennia: grapes naturally ferment.
“Grape juice”, as we know & assume it, is a very recent invention.
Wine Used In Ritual Ceremonies 5000 Years Ago In Georgia, The Cradle Of Viticulture
Science Daily | Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Posted on 06/19/2016 5:23:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3441829/posts
Party like it’s 1999 BC.
YEEHAW!
Давайте вечеринки! (Davayte vecherinki! (LETS PARTY!))
Must have been much warmer then to grow grapes in Georgia.
Stomp them grapes boys.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oV941KW2SuI
On the backs of Black slaves, no doubt, who, brought the invention with them from Africa.
And, then it was stolen by White males.
That’s interesting. You’ve given me something to dig into. the oldest brewery in North America.
we serve no wine before its time
FWIW, there’s very little of it left. Barely a fenced-off bunch of foundation-shaped rocks on side of road at north end of island. Intriguing to see, though, for those of us who find such things interesting.
In Georgia they didn’t make wine. What they found there was ancient90-100 proof shine.
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