The History Of Wine Is The History Of Mans Thirst
For all the talk what wine snobbery does wine expertise come do to? In the end wine is nothing more than simply fermented fruit juice. And rotten or fermented fruit juice at that. The earliest evidence suggesting wine production comes from archaeological sites in Iran and Russian Georgia, dating from 6000 to 5000 B.C. (Before Christ). Wine has long been used as a safe storage form of precious water for human consumption, and for its use in religious and important cultural mores. Almost every culture and societal group on earth each somehow learnt to make simple alcoholic beverages.
This is no mere accident. Humans early on learnt the psychological effects that alcohol provides . Along the way they learnt to like affect and desired and even craved these effects of alcohol. Wine is even generally considered as a sexual anaphrodisiac among many cultures.
Today many important wine regions in Europe are proud of their wine histories which they date back all way to the early Roman era.
Wine itself in the end can be sourced from any fruit juice although most commonly known as the fermented liquid of...