Alicia Steffann
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A dusty old cellar filled with bottles worth thousands of dollars.
Wine has made its way into nearly every part of society and life.
It spans the everyday to the most elite, the casual and the cultured.
But how did this drink, made of fermented grapes, gain the status and popularity it enjoys today?
And how did clippings travel from continent to continent, helping to establish industries from Australia to South Africa and beyond?
Benjamin Franklin once said, Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
one thing that can be said for certain is that wine has been a part of human life for a very long time when it comes to recounting a history some topics are simpler than others wine is quite an ambitious subject we're going to walk you through our version of the history of wine
Now, it must be said upfront that this is a vast and sprawling story.
It would be impossible for us to recognize every era, every region, and every interesting development on such a long and far-ranging trek.
rather than putting this story forth as a comprehensive history we ask you to view it as a primer we have attempted to include some of the most notable times and places while acknowledging that no story could ever possibly encompass them all
With that said, although there's no way to know for sure when humans first purposely made wine, it seems highly likely that nature had been doing it independently for thousands of years.
This may sound like a bold claim, but the truth is that at its most basic level, wine making is an entirely natural process.
First, we should establish that while wine can be made from lots of different fruits, the most commonly accepted type is made with grapes.
As such, experts will point out that winemaking probably dates back to the very earliest grapes that grew on Earth.