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Wine History
After study this chapter you should be able to:
Understand background of wine
 Explain wine history of each area
 Know the different and origins of wine
 The different between new world wine
and old world wine
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Wine making reason (in the past)
In the past, water supply was contaminated.
 Worship and ceremony
 Celebration
 Belief
 Food and medicine
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Route of wine history
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9,000 years before history
– Cappadocia, Turkey
– The east of black sea, Georgia 7,000 years
– Jericho in Palestine
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Middle East
– Tigris-Euphrates
– Babylon, Iraq
– Persia gulf, Iran
– Egypt, Greek, Roman to Mediterranean sea
– Europe
Mediterranean Sea
World Map
Eight millennium wine history
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Since 6,000 years in The Sumerian Civilization
(Caucasia, Mesopotamia)
• In ancient Egypt was found the evidence on
tomb wall of Pharaoh since 3,000 B.C.
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In Greek ancient was called Italy as
“the Land of wine”
the ceremonial of wine drinking is one of the favorite motifs of Greek
painting
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Michelangelo was draw oil painting of
Bacchus, god of wines (in Romans)
•Year 1968, the American Geologist found
the new evidence
Discovery of wine jug of 7,500
years
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By American geologist in 1968
Courtesy University of Pennsylvania Museum
Wine during Pharaonic, Roman Eras
The evidence was found in poem of Greece
ancient since 2,000 B.C.
 In Athens the cultivated of grape was expanded
to Romans
 Romans was initiated to produced wine glasses
 The 5th Century, cultivated was expanded to
Europe
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Wine in the middle ages
During the 5th century to the year 1350.
 The evidence was found in the church,
and chapel.
 Wine is liken “the blood of Christ”
 Wine evolution in Europe
 In 1153-1455 wine in France was
exported to England
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Modern Time Wine
From the 17th Century to present
 The evolution of beverage
- Chocolate-The Middle America
- Coffee- The Middle East
- Tea- China
- Distilling- Dutch
 Wine storage in bottle with cork was
found since 200 years ago
 Champagne was invented by priest Dom
Perignon of Abbey of Hautvillers in
Champagne at last of 17th century
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Wine Today
Old world and New world wine
 Expansion of wine maker around the
world
 Viticulture and enology school
 High marketing competition
 Fighting varietals
 Economic cycles in the wine business
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Golden age of wine
It was in 19th century.
 The modern studied of chemistry and
microbiology.
 Laboratory wine making process.
 Resulted in huge advances in quality of
wine.
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Archaeological sites of wine and olive
Summary
Since the 1970s to the present, it was the
growing of winemaking.
 Technological advancement
 Movement to blend new technology with
traditional grapes and wine making
techniques
 Growing in consumer wine knowledge and
interest
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