{"id":7148,"date":"2011-01-12T01:47:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T05:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2011-01-12T01:47:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T05:47:32","slug":"armenian-discovery-may-be-earliest-winery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/armenian-discovery-may-be-earliest-winery\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian discovery may be earliest winery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent find in Armenia shows evidence of grape pressing, vine cuttings, and fermentation vessels. It may be the <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/researchers-oldest-known-winery-cave-armenian-mountains-dates-20110110-134027-546.html\" target=\"_blank\">earliest winery<\/a> ever discovered:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While older evidence of wine drinking has been found, this is the earliest example of complete wine production, according to Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles, co-director of the excavation.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, announced Tuesday by the National Geographic Society, are published in the online edition of the <em>Journal of Archaeological Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence argues convincingly for a wine-making facility,&#8221; said Patrick McGovern, scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, who was not part of the research team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how far back it goes, but the evidence at this site shows that even 6,000 years ago, <em>Vitis vinifera vinifera<\/em> was the best choice to turn into wine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent find in Armenia shows evidence of grape pressing, vine cuttings, and fermentation vessels. It may be the earliest winery ever discovered: While older evidence of wine drinking has been found, this is the earliest example of complete wine production, according to Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles, co-director of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,131],"tags":[288,653],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-wine","tag-archaeology","tag-armenia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Ri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}