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The origins of wine predate written records, and modern archaeology is still uncertain about the details of the first cultivation of wild grapevines.It has been hypothesized that early humans climbed trees to pick berries, liked their sugary flavor, and then began collecting them.
Wine is an alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit. Yeast consumes the sugar in the fruit and converts it to ethanol and carbon dioxide, releasing heat in the process. Wine is most often made from grapes, and the term "wine" generally refers to grape wine when used without any qualification. Even so, wine can be made from a variety of fruit ...
History of American wine. The Brotherhood Winery, in Washingtonville, New York, is the longest continual winery in the United States; [ 1] it was built in 1838. The history of American wine began when the first Europeans explored parts of North America, which they called Vinland because of the profusion of grape vines found there.
Winemaking. Wine grapes from the Guadalupe Valley in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. Winemaking, wine-making, or vinification is the production of wine, starting with the selection of the fruit, its fermentation into alcohol, and the bottling of the finished liquid. The history of wine -making stretches over millennia.
Tuscan Chianti in a traditional fiasco. Italian wine (Italian: vino italiano) is produced in every region of Italy.Italy is the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine in the world, [1] [2] with an area of 702,000 hectares (1.73 million acres) under vineyard cultivation, [3] as well as the world's second largest wine producer and the largest exporter as of 2023.
The major wine regions of France. The history of French wine, spans a period of at least 2600 years dating to the founding of Massalia in the 6th century BC by Phocaeans with the possibility that viticulture existed much earlier.
Humans have been drinking wine for over 6,000 years.Nearly every part of the world has their own winemaking traditions and different varietals of grapes, fermentation techniques, and climates that ...
History of Champagne. A bottle of Champagne being used to christen the USS Shangri-La (CV-38) in 1944. Champagne has had a long history of being used in celebration of events such as the launching of ships. The history of Champagne began when the Romans planted vineyards in this region of northeast France in the 5th century, or possibly earlier.