{"id":5875,"date":"2020-02-11T18:12:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/?p=5875"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T12:17:32","slug":"smartcoco-the-origin-of-the-wine-grape-smartcoco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/smartcoco-the-origin-of-the-wine-grape-smartcoco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of the wine grape"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The origin of the wine grape <\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

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There are many\u00a0etiological myths<\/a> told about the first cultivation of the grapevine and fermentation of wine.\u00a0<\/span>Wine has been produced for thousands of years. The evidence of wine in\u00a0Georgia<\/a> from 6000 BC,\u00a0Iran<\/a> from 5000 BC,\u00a0and\u00a0Sicily<\/a> from 4000 BC.<\/p>\n

<\/sup>The oldest archaeological evidence of wine produced from grapes has been found at sites in\u00a0Georgia<\/a>\u00a0(c.<\/span>\u20096000\u00a0BC),\u00a0Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0(c.<\/span>\u20095000\u00a0BC),\u00a0Iran<\/a>\u00a0(c.<\/span>\u20095000\u00a0BC),\u00a0Greece<\/a>\u00a0(c.<\/span>\u20094500\u00a0BC), and\u00a0Sicily<\/a>\u00a0(c.<\/span>\u20094000\u00a0BC). The earliest-extant evidence of wine production has been found in\u00a0Armenia<\/a>\u00a0(c.<\/span>\u20094100 BC).The cultivation of the domesticated grape began 6,000\u20138,000 years ago. One of the earliest domesticated microorganisms, occurs naturally on the skins of grapes, leading to the discovery of alcoholic drinks such as wine. The earliest archeological evidence for a dominant position of wine-making in human culture dates from 8,000 years ago in Georgia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The European wine grape , also known as Vitis vinifera<\/a><\/i> , originated in an unexpected place named the \u00a0Caucasus<\/a> Mountains and the \u00a0Zagros Mountains<\/a> . These mountain ranges span from Armenia through Azerbaijan, Georgia , northern Iran\u00a0 , southeastern Anatolia and eastern Turkey.<\/span>People who made the first wine were from the Shulaveri-Shomu culture .The name ‘Shulaveri-Shomu’ comes from the town of Shulaveri, in the Republic of Georgia, known since 1925 as\u00a0Shaumiani<\/a>, and Shomu-Tepe, in the\u00a0Agstafa District<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Azerbaijan<\/a>. People of Stone Age who used obsidian for tools , raised cattle and pigs , and most importantly , grew grapes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The oldest-known\u00a0winery<\/a>\u00a0was discovered in the\u00a0“Areni” cave<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Vayots Dzor<\/a>,\u00a0Armenia<\/a>. Dated to\u00a0c.<\/span>\u20094100 BC, the site contained a wine press, fermentation vats, jars, and cups.<\/span>The civilisation of Greece and the ancient\u00a0Phoenicians<\/a>\u00a0 have to be thanks for the spreading of wine grapes throughout Europe .<\/span>They were the most responsible for the spread of wine grape throughout Western Europe . <\/span><\/p>\n

The grape slowly mutated and adapted to their unique environment , with each each new region that was planted.<\/span>This slow divergence over thousands of years is what created the amazing diversity of over the 1300 identified wine varieties we have today .<\/span>Diversity is important , at least in wine because it protect against disease and reduce the need of unnatural defence like pesticides .unfortunately , demand for popular grapes threatens to reduce the amount of natural diversity in wine around the world .<\/span><\/p>\n

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The origin of the wine grape There are many\u00a0etiological myths told about the first cultivation of the grapevine and fermentation of wine.\u00a0Wine has been produced for thousands of years. The evidence of wine in\u00a0Georgia from 6000 BC,\u00a0Iran from 5000 BC,\u00a0and\u00a0Sicily from 4000 BC. The oldest archaeological evidence of wine produced from grapes has been found…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,130,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en","category-culture-and-civilisation","category-wine","category-110","category-130","category-131","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5875"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7377,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5875\/revisions\/7377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartcoco.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}