Georgia is also known to make special ways to make it with the birth of alcohol and UNESCO has included it in the list of world heritage.
Violence and protests started across the country with the announcement of the ruling party’s victory in Georgia’s local elections on Saturday. The angry mob captured the Rashtrapati Bhavan, which the police used tear gas and water cannons to stop. Actually, all this happened in Georgia on the call of the opposition. The opposition had called for a peaceful revolution to save democracy in the country, which turned into violence. This is the same Georgia, which is known worldwide as the birth donor of wine. Let us know how the birth of alcohol in Georgia and how reached the world?
The people of Georgia have been proudly describing it as the birth place of alcohol. The sword in one hand of Mother Georgia, located in the national capital Tabilisi, has a sword in one hand and a cup of wine. It is considered to be a symbol of the warmth hospitality as well as the freedom of the people of Georgia. Over time, orchological evidence has confirmed that Georgia is the oldest wine producing country in the world. Now it has become the identity of Georgia.
How to know that alcohol was born in Georgia?
In the year 2015, scientists studying the history of agriculture in Georgia found a soil character. This character found during excavation in South East Georgia turned out to be 8 thousand years old. It was revealed in the excavation done under the joint venture of Toronto University and Georgian National Museum.
During the research, excavation took place in Gudchrili Gora, Georgia. Photo: Judyta olszewski
The remains of the grapes and grape seeds found in this vessel showed that all these belong to BCE. This confirmed that ancient Georgia is the first known place to make wine from grapes. That is, wine was being made three thousand years before the invention of writing in Georgia and five thousand years before the beginning of the iron era.
How was the wine born?
According to Georgia’s wine expert Andrew Jeffers, the production of wine would not have started in a day. People will have learned the method of making it in a phased manner. It may be that someone has pressed into the soil by placing the grapes and its seeds in the soil and after a long interval, it has turned into fluid, which got a great taste in drinking and gradually refined. This was later called wine.
Researchers analyzed the remains of alcohol based on this neolithic jar. Photo: Judyta olszewski
This is how wine is made in Georgia
The old method is still used to make wine in Georgia. In this, for the firm of the wine, it is kept in the ground and pressed into the ground. It naturally controls the temperature of the wine and the wine gets a different taste. Even today this method is an important part of the production of wine in Georgia and UNESCO has included it in the list of world heritage.
To make alcohol, it is kept in the ground by placing it in an earthen pot (qvevri) to make its firm. Photo: Pixabay
Starting from Babylon and reached every corner of the world
Georgia is located between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, so its weather is very suitable for the production of grapes. Not one or two, full 525 varieties of grapes are found here. These grapes, Georgia soil and the weather there together play an important role in the production of wine.
Initially, when the people of Georgia made a wine with grapes and understood its importance, then first sent it to Babylon. Then, surrounded by the Kakesus ranges, this country established business relations with the phonician and Unani civilization and started sending its wine to the surrounding areas of the Mediterranean Sea. Since Georgia’s geographical location is such that it acts as a bridge between Europe, Asia as well as the Middle East. This gave it a chance to promote its business and it sent the wine far away. Over time, Georgia’s wine was supplied in every corner of the world.
Famous worldwide for unique taste
Georgia’s wine is a unique taste in itself and that is why it is famous all over the world. This wine gift of native grapes and local soil is still made in Georgia with a large -scale old method, which has become an integral part of culture along with the identity of Georgia. It is transferred from one generation to another as a cultural heritage. It is not that in Georgia, wine is made only by the old method. Georgia has also adopted modern and European techniques of making wine. Despite this, the wine of Georgia is still maintaining its own identity.
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