Saturday, February 7, 2026

Who made the first wine in the world?


*There is no name.

The first wine was not made by a man, but by an accident, of nature - A Neolithic tribe in Georgia was smart enough to bottle the thing.

8000 years ago.

The (Shulaveri Shomu) people found that wild Eurasian grapes, Vitis vinifera.

Crushed by their own weight (fermented) into something holy and dangerous - They buried the good juice in massive clay jars called qvevri.

This let the earth-cool the fermentation.

(Gadachrili Gora). Near Tbilisi. Took place there.

The Chinese-At Jiahu.

They mixed grapes with rice and honey earlier, a sweet grog.

But the Georgians - You see they made the blood of the earth-the real thing.


One winemaker - Not known, a ghost, they don't take the credit.

The soil.

The wild-yeast — The thirst of forgotten men. This is what it was.