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In East Asia, the first modern wine industry was Japanese wine, developed in 1874 after grapevines were brought back from Europe. The earliest wine producing companies in Japan are Mercian (established in 1877) and Suntory (established in 1909).
The earliest known traces of wine are from Georgia (c. 6000 BCE), [3] [2] Persia (c. 5000 BCE), [8] [9] Armenia (c. 4100 BCE), [10] and Sicily (c. 4000 BCE). [11] Wine reached the Mediterranean Basin in the early Bronze Age and was consumed and celebrated by ancient civilizations like ancient Greece and Rome.
To ensure the steady supply of wine to Roman soldiers and colonists, viticulture and wine production spread to every part of the empire. The Romans diluted their wine before drinking. Wine was also used for religious purposes, in the pouring of libations to deities. Though beer was drunk in Ancient Rome, it was replaced in popularity by wine. [33]
Philistine pottery beer jug. Beer is one of the oldest human-produced drinks. The written history of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia records the use of beer, and the drink has spread throughout the world; a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem honouring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving beer-recipe, describing the production of beer from barley bread, and in China ...
Mead, sometimes called honey wine, could possibly be the oldest alcoholic beverage made by man, according to liquor.com. The ancient Greeks called mead the "nectar of the gods." The ancient Greeks ...
The first trace of wine that has been found dates to 7500 years ago, in present-day Iran [2] but the results of archaeological excavations have not been able to determine from which time wine began to be produced.
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