Kvevri - pottery for storage wine, VII millenium B.C.

 

The imprints of vine leaves in early geological strata, vine seeds found in the ancient tombs of the Bronze age, and numerous other proofs discovered by palaeobotany and archaeology convincingly confirm that from time immemorial Georgia has been growing grape-wines. Actually, it was one of the first countries in the world to begin cultivating vines.

Meanwhile, wine-making implements, ancient wine vessels, clay, gold, silver and bronze cups for drinking wine, wine barrels manufactured in the second and even third millennium, B.C., discovered at sites of archaeological excavations, leave no doubt that even at that time their owners mastered the art of wine-making.

No nation in the world have such rich terminology for a designation of utensils for drink and wine storage - kvevri, churi, docki, the koka, sura, pialy, kantsi, azarpesha, chinchila, kula, etc. On the basis of this richest heritage, has arisen modern the modern national school of the georgian ceramics - recognized all as original, original phenomena georgian art.

Ancient culture of ancient vine has stipulated the development and existence of wine and table vessels made of clay and metal, silver and gold in Georgia, which were exchanged, sold and spread through-out the whole world of those thimes.

Georgian tableware of the fifth century BC with the inscription “I belong to Apolon Tsinamdzgvari, who is in Phazisi”, are found in many countries. Wine

koka, sura, kula - wine vessels V millenium B.C.
Famous Cup fromTrialeti  - I millenium B.C.  

vessel hidria, of the sixth century BC was found in Greece with the inscription “Kolkhian made me”, “I was painted by a Kolkhian, georgian”.

Very often archaeologist find in their excavations giant “kvevris” – cone-shaped clay vessels in which wine was made and kept and were buried in the earth – as well as numerous dokis, kokas, suras, pialas, azarpheshas, chinchilas, kulas and other types of wine cups. Among the pitches, found on the territory of Georgia, seven millennium’s old vessel is one more archaeological evidence together with the grape stones, pruning tools, vessels – mugs, jags, jars, etc. They are seven thousand years old and who knows, vine might have been cultivated in Georgia from even earlier times.

Archaeological excavations in Georgia often yield gold, silver and bronze wine cups and ornaments bearing the imprint of wine and grapes, specimens of the

ancient georgian art of chasing.

These relics confirm that wine-making is a traditional occupation of the Georgian people...

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