06 Dec 2012

Turkey – Motherland of wine

 
 
Patrick McGovern, an employer of Pennsylvanian Museum of Archeology and Anthropology and Swiss biologist Jose Villamo have come to a conclusion that the wine-making appeared fist between 6th-9th century before J.C. In the region of South-East Anatolia (modern Turkey). They declared the fact at a wine conference EWBC in Izmir. The conclusion is based on analysis of content of wine acid in the rests in vessels of wine and the DNA test of local vine. According to the words of the scientists, the process of domesticating of Vitis vinifera was effected mostly by people from ancient Georgia, Armenia and Iran, however the historical motherland of wine is South-East of Anatolia peninsula, the territory of Nature Crescent. The region is known as the motherland of the most part of cereals. The researches report that they have found out 13 pra-vines which gave life to all modern vines. McGovern and Villamo declare that these pra-vines were cultivated at the northern part of the peninsula simultaneously. Another point of view names as the Motherland of vine Egypt, Greece, Turkey. The idea is that creation of alcohol drinks is connected with Neolithic revolution followed by settled way of life. Domestication of cereals provoked appearance of various raw materials for alcohol. The oldest of it was beer produced of fermented barley. Source – www.lenta.ru