(CNN) — Six thousand years before Christ turned water into wine, the ancestors of modern-day Georgia were turning grapes into it. It’s thanks to these imaginative Stone Age sapiens that today we enjoy Gamay from Beaujolais, Chianti from Tuscany, Rioja from Navarro and Cabernet Sauvignon everywhere from France to New Zealand.
Een video door CNN over Georgië, zijn geschiedenis en zijn wijnen met Dariko Mogazuri, wijn- en Georgië-expert.
Dit artikel is verschenen op National Geographic op 21 mei 2018. Zie https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/sponsor-content-secret-birthplace-of-wine. GEORGIANS ARE RIGHTLY proud of their rich and historic winemaking culture, and as traditional methods enjoy a renaissance, the qvevri – an earthenware vessel used to store and age wine for thousands of years – is becoming the Lees meer…