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| History of Wine |
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As of 2006, the earliest known evidence of a fermented wine-like drink is from the Chinese village of Jiahu dated from 8000 to 9000 years ago. The millet or rice wine was discovered by chemically analyzing traces from 16 buried jars. The wine was found to contain rice, beeswax and either hawthorn fruit or wild grape. A 3000 year old bronze jar was unearthed still containing a similar liquid wine. Chemical tests of ancient pottery jars reveal that wine was produced about 7000 years ago in what is today Iran, and is one of the first known biological engineering tasks, where the biological process of fermentation is used in a process.
The early evidence of wine dates to 5400 B.C., from Hajji Firuz Tepe in the Zagros Mountians of present day Iran. It is believed that the name of the Shiraz grape originates from the Persian town of the same name. This discovery is particularly significant, as this area was not a grape growing area, the main crops were grains and the preferred drink of the time was beer, which suggests that wine was probably used as a commodity. Ancient Babylon was located on the Silk Road from China to the Mediterranean.
Wine played an important part in ceremonial life in ancient Egypt. Although the wild grape never grew there, a thriving royal winemaking industry had been established in the Nile Delta - most likely due to Early Bronze Age trade between Egypt and Canaan by at least Dynasty 3, the beginning of the Old Kingdom period. Winemaking scenes appear on tomb walls, and the accompanying offering lists include wine that was difinitely produced at vineyards in the Delta. By the end of the Old Kingdom, five wines-all probably made in the Delta-constitute a canonical set of provisions, or fixed "menu," for the afterlife.
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