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The earliest known wine, in pottery near Tbilisi in the South Caucasus, about 6000 BC: the region of the mountains of Ararat.
The mechanism
THE FIRST VINEYARD'S RECORD
How it was checked
- EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: ADDED 2026-09-18
- Letter eraTHE DECLARATION AND THE DEEP RECORD the awakening to Babel: dated by ruling and by the record, placed by story where the text gives no date
- Plate — National Museum of Georgia, Neolithic kvevri wine vessel from Khramis Didi Gora · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_terracotta_Kvevri_used_to_ferment_and_age_wine_decorated_with_depictions_of_bunches_of_grapes,_First_half_of_the_6th_millennium_BC,_from_Khramis_Didid_Gora,_National_Museum_of_Georgia,_Tbilisi,_Georgia.jpg
- SourcesCHEMISTRY — McGovern et al. 2017 (PNAS): Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus
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