Where's the Wine's birthland?

Question

Which city was the Wine's birthland?

Answer 1

Since Biblical times wine has played a central role in much of Western culture. Wine’s history parallels the rise of European nations finds its way into everything from religion to politics.

It is thought that grapes were first used to make wine around 4000 B.C. in the Middle East. Wine making quickly spread across all of Europe and northern Africa, and became an influential part of the Egyptian, Roman, and Greek empires. The Greeks were the first to popularize wine in Europe. For them it proved to be an important source of trade and medicine. Homer’s Odyssey and the Iliad give extensive examples of the pervasiveness of wine in Greek culture.

The Greeks may have been the first to popularize wine in Europe, but it was the Romans who turned it into an art form. The Roman Empire invested much time and money into classifying grapes and recording ripening trends in order to perfect the wine being produced. They identified diseases plaguing their crops and experimented with different soils. Through the use of science and diligence the Romans greatly improved the wine making process and the quality of the wine. This is best seen in the vineyards of present day France and Italy, whose roots come from the early Roman vineyards.

Wine making is not exclusive to Europe though, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries it followed the explorers across the Atlantic Ocean. Spain developed vineyards in Argentina and in the valleys near the Chilean Andes. In 1769 a Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra brought wine making to southern California. Though it began in southern California, wine making now occupies the central and northern regions of Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the eastern American root louse endangered many vineyards. Crops in Europe and Australia would have been wiped out if not for the idea to graft Vitis vinifera scions to native America Vitis labrusca vines. Since Vitis vinifera is nearly resistant to the root louse it proved to be an ideal solution to the problem.

Answer 2

The Wine's birth land , Archeologist's say, could be Turkey ,Syria or Jordan,(8000 BC) ,where they found piles of grape seeds which they interpreted as the beginning of wine making.
Just imagine 600.000 years ago, when the hunter-gatherers were around,they knew the grapes as well - archeology tells.
But you know, nobody actually knows where it's birth land was.

Buy yourself a bottle of good Pinot Noir and make out a toast to our ancestors whatever country the came from.
They did a very,very good job !!
Cheers!

Answer 3

Mediterranean countries.Anyway the word wine comes from Greek ΟΙΝΟΣ,and there was God Dionysus the God of wine
In Greek museums you can see bottles 2000 years BC

Answer 4

Forget all of this cut and paste stuff...nobody knows where wine was born. So find some good wine and enjoy it!

Answer 5

It's from the Mediterrenean area...probably ancient Greece or Crete. Wine was a trade item for both of these cultures.

Answer 6

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