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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.
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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 |
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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 |
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ancient georgian art of chasing.
These
relics confirm that wine-making is a traditional occupation
of the Georgian people...
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