Found at archaeologic excavation the most ancient wine-making equipment - II-III millenium B.C.

 

The Science, on base recent archaeological opening in Dmanisi, connects the beginning of history of humanity with a native trace of the man in Georgia. According to the existing facts, the man lived here more then one million eight hundred thousand years ago. From the date of occurrence of the first humans, millions people lived on this ground and during the centurys on the level of a genetic code kept and transferred the culture of wine to subsequent generations as spiritual property of huge importance.

A modern cultural vine (Vitis vinifera) is a successor of wild rod (Vitis silvestris) which on age is more senior than humanity. It was always wide-spread in Georgia.. It became the reason of occurrence more than six hundred kinds of a cultural vine in territory of this country.

 

For a designation of a wild vine in European and other languages use the unique term. It concerns also those countries which use huge authority as the countries - manufacturers a wine. In the Georgian language exists eight name of a wild vine (krikina, usurvazi, katabarda, dzguamli, bundzgumi, mortshula, burehi, and shhurichi), that in itself the important fact.

To establish, since what times there is in Georgia a wild vine practical, is impossible, however, for this country so good conditions for growth and developments are characteristic, that the Black Sea coast of Transcaucasia should be fair must be recognized as the native land of a wild vine.

As if to conversions of a wild vine into a cultural plant the majority of a scientific of world do not put any more under doubt, that this important event had places about 5 000 years ago in territory of Georgia. This opinion was divided with such authorities as: V.Hehn, K.Bazerman, P.Zhukovsky, A.Engler, L.Porte, F.Rujsen, P.Viala, K.Koh, V.Gumbolt, D.Mendeleev, A.Negruli, S.Kolenat, R.Braun ...

Analysis and Vavilov's conclusion which have grown out of the researches which have been lead almost in seventy countries are remarkable: " All world wine-making, all basic assortment of a vine is imported from Georgia where till our time the vine grows in wild conditions ..."

The Georgian wine and culture of a vine also served as a subject of surprise for such antique authors, as Appolon from Rodos and the Homere, Ksenofont and Strabon. Last was so is admired with a Georgian wine that wrote: " The vine in Georgia gives a fruit for the second year, for the second year gives a plenty of fruits and fantastic gumos ". Prokofy from Kesari openly recognized, that Georgia is the native land of wine and from there culture of the vine spread in country of the Europe. It especially emphasized that fact, that feasts at imperial court yard of the East and the West decorated Georgian wines.

Found out in Babylon the cuneiform inscription speaking about glory and invincibility of assyrians even more impresses. Till IX century of our era they were so are strong, that forced to render tribute gold of many neighbours. As they say in inscriptions, unique exception assyrians did for the georgians - a tributes from them took only by wine.

In itself adequately pride that a word "wine", spread in Europe and all over the world from the Georgian name of this divine liquid - "gvino". It to the modified form was fixed in many languages - "vin", "wein", "vinum", "wine", "wain", "wine" ...

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