Recent finds indicate wine-making began in Georgia

“’Chemical analysis of ceramics found on early Neolithic monuments has proved that this is the ancient wine remains in Near East. Wine acid in huge volume on clay pot, along with other indicators, represents one of the key biological markers of grapes and wine. This signifies that people on this territory used to make wine 6000 years B.C. – bout 500 years earlier of the previous discovery. According to this finding, wild Eurasian grape was firstly used in this region,’ the magazine reads.

“The findings are the earliest evidence so far of wine made from the Eurasian grape, which is used in nearly all wine produced worldwide.”

https://www.georgianjournal.ge/discover-georgia/34258-wine-remains-discovered-in-georgia-among-the-worlds-10-most-important-findings.html