France is famous for its wine, and for good reason… they’ve been making wine longer than anyone else! Newly discovered artifacts show it was being made as far back as 425 B.C! So what exactly did this ancient wine taste like? Trace finds out.
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Earliest Evidence of French Winemaking Discovered
http://news.discovery.com/history/us-history/earliest-french-wine-making-discovered-130603.htm
“An ancient limestone platform dating back to 425 B.C is the oldest wine press ever discovered on French soil.”
Earliest Evidence of French Winemaking Discovered
http://www.livescience.com/37089-oldest-french-wine-press.html?cmpid=514645
“An ancient limestone platform dating back to 425 B.C is the oldest wine press ever discovered on French soil.”
The Origins & Ancient History of Wine
http://www.penn.museum/sites/wine/wineneolithic.html
“If winemaking is best understood as an intentional human activity rather than a seasonal happenstance, then the Neolithic period (8500-4000 B.C.) is the first time in human prehistory when the necessary preconditions for this momentous innovation came together.”
Drinking Wine, From a Chore to a Choice
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/dining/the-history-of-wine-drinking-from-a-chore-to-a-choice.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“Wine is old, ancient, neolithic. It has been consumed throughout recorded history. Yet wine as we know it today is relatively new.”
Climate Influences on Grapevine Phenology, Grape Composition, and Wine Production and Quality for Bordeaux, France
http://www.sou.edu/envirostudies/gjones_docs/JonesDavisAJEV.pdf
“A long-term (1952–1997) climatology was developed using reference vineyard observations in Bordeaux, France.”
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35 Comments
Jesus you'd be unpopular slagging Retsina like that
IT IS CALLED RECINA!!!! you idi*t xD
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Its crazy to think little dumb foods to us now (like Wine and Bread) was hella popular millions of years ago
He do not know not wine not wine history
its another "american thinks wine is only a french thing" episode
Spain and italy would like to have a word with you
I once made my own wine as a kid by letting a can of grape juice ferment in my pantry. It wasn’t bad at all.
Old ancient wine smels good. No gifts no chime. Its a netual eine
moron to believe wine was worse back than than our saturated chemical laxed wine today
Wine comes from Georgia
Are we seriously going to believe wine tasters, that shit is superficial as all hell. Why can’t we just treat wine as it is, alchoholic grape juice
https://www.lacrema.com/the-birthplace-of-wine/
'These ancient Italian guys'
Otherwise known as the Romans.
Slipping into idiocracy smh…
The thing with water only applies to northern countries. The ancient greeks praised spring water as divine and many poets rather drank spring water than wine because of its healthy properties.
Gauls in France GERMANI in Germania two different Tribes of peoples
Why not also explain that the Etruscans got their wine from Southern Italy Greeks.
Actually the oldest wine came from China
The thing about ancient people’s solely drinking alcohol and not water is ridiculous and so false. Try drinking just alcohol for every drink you ever have, you would literally die after a few years if not months lol
Georgia is the home of wine!
This guy forgot spain which is the largerst grape producer specifically for wine.
Commandaria wine is a Greek Cypriot wine, it is the oldest wine in the world today that is still in production, first mentioned by the ancient Greek Poet Hesiod in 800 BC (2,800 years ago), its made the same as it has always been made and tastes delicious, so if you want to know what ancient Greek CYpriot wine tasted like, then drink Commandaria
Armenia.
Absurdly ignorant assertion! Archaeology proves wine had been made in Georgia as long as 8000 years ago: ashttps://scitechdaily.com/archaeologists-find-earliest-evidence-winemaking/
Georgians had already been cultivating varieties of grapes by 7000 years ago, and the technology used today is the same as used then, since it's so simple. France was a frozen wasteland for thousands of years after Near East and Caucasia were ice-free in Neolithic, giving Caucasians and Mediterranean peoples a huge head start in settled domestic culture that would allow for pottery and cultivation, the basic technologies that precede wine-making.
The taste of Neolithic wine is available at your local liquor store in a $20 bottle of Saperavi.
Oldest wine comes from Georgia ….
My friend the oldest wine in the world, and still in production, is in Cyprus and its call
"Commandaria" and it dates back to
800 BC. King Richard the Lionheart pronounced Commandaria "the wine of kings and the king of wines"
Phoenicians (ancient Lebanon) exported wine everywhere.
Wine was stronger back in ancient times. Wine in ancients times had an ABV of 15 to 30% modern wine averages between 10 to 12%
We want wine in Antarctica 🍻🥂🍻cheers
it probably had a lead after taste to it
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You're annoying as sour wine.
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Wine created in country of Georgia .