The Cultural Roots of Wine

Without the people of the southern Caucasus approximately 8,000 years ago, we would not have wine as we know it today.

But we would also not have modern wine without the need to transport wine over long distances—a practice that the Phoenicians truly systematized around 3,500 years ago.

Together, these two currents in wine history created two distinct types of wine and thus two different kinds of wine culture existed until modern technology and global trade corridors changed the game...