History of Wine

Wine has a lengthy history and each wine bottle has its own history. These two features add significantly to the attraction of wine but the position of wine in the cultural history is the grander and superior topic.

Wine was the first object which was created by man and contains a unique position in most of the societies. The wine’s history is also a captivating tale of practical improvement as man applied his aptitude to the troubles caused by the first chemical effects that he met such as oxidation and fermentation.

No one is aware about the fact that who is the inventor of the first wine. The large conventional cultures of Rome and Greece marked it into their prehistory and constructs myths around its invention.

Ancient Egypt provides the lists of wine and wall paintings of wine. The Egyptians are the first people who traced the winery, age and winemaker on individual containers of wine as the first wine tags.

Then Babylonians set up rules to control the operation of a wine shop and engrave brilliant images of a jewel and magical bearing winery in the classic of Gilgamesh which was considered as the creative writing and was written in the 18 th century BC. Wine was prepared from the wild grapes.

It was proved that grape is the main fruit which has intended sugars and plenty juice and has an intrinsic propensity to ferment. An alcohol is prepared with fermentation and this will be done only when the grapes got ripe and the juice will come into contact with yeast which is present on the skins of the grapes.

Then the juice of grape is kept in a container for few days which will be automatically turned into wine. Clean imagination directs to a Stone Age man who positioned ripe grapes in a container made up of clay, skin bag or wooden bowl and allows them to ferment. It will take few hours instead of days in warm conditions and it will get converted into a wine.

There is no evidence that who has first drank this pleasant and intoxicating juice and one can also suffer from headache when one will drink wine for the first time. Wine was used in various religious ceremonies, also used as a medicine or an antiseptic and played many different roles in the past.

The ancient Chinese prepared wine from wild grapes which grow on the mountains such as Vitis thunbergii. The exact place where wine was first prepared was still not known. It grows in Spain to Central Asia and the first production of wine was done on a large scale in the regions of East and Southern Caucasus .

Wild grapes also grow in northern Levant , Georgia , northern Armenia or Iran and southeastern and coastal Turkey . There is no proof about the origin of wine but some suggests that Georgia is considered as the birthplace of wine.