It is not known exactly.
What is known is that wine was known and made from grapes cultivated in Egypt and ancient Sumer.
Grapes grow wile throughout the near and middle east, from Iran near the Caspian sea to Armenia, and from the Caucasus to the Persian gulf. It is likely that they were first domesticated there. While grape culture and winemaking in prehistoric times are quite likely, it is difficult to place or date, though traces of such activity seems attested in Georgia (caucasus), and northern Iran.
Winemaking in Sumer (modern Iraq) is attested around 3200 BC.
In Egypt, wine was probably introduced from the Levant (Israel, Lebanon, Eastern Turkey) arounde 2700 or 2600 BC, and was locally produced in the Delta area by 2200 BC.
2006-11-24 05:22:56
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answered by Svartalf 6
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No one knows yet, but archeologist are finding new information all of the time. The answer is most likely in the Middle East region known as the Fertile Crescent, where people first started farming. There is an ancient tale about a very depressed Persian princess who decided to kill herself by drinking the smelly liquid in the bottom of a bowl of grapes. The next morning she wasn't deal and she felt better about her life. When she told her father what had happened, he began to produce wine, and soon more people learned how to do it. This is probably how wine was invented. So far, we know that wine goes back about 8000 years.
2006-11-26 15:39:12
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answered by Jeffrey M 1
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Read this: it says under the title "Early History"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine
2006-11-24 05:15:48
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answered by Anonymous
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as quickly as upon a time there grew to become into this French winemaker, and he had those youthful females treading the grapes, regrettably using a chemical imbalance from the toenail varnish, rose has now been compelled upon us.
2016-12-29 10:09:09
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answered by dobard 3
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When Jesus turned the water....
2006-11-24 07:19:46
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answered by Tina S 2
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