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Wine production has become a hobby for me, being of Italian descent it has a special place in my genes. I have established this site in an effort to explain the wine making process for your enjoyment. Best of luck in your wine making.

Wine Making: A Very Ancient Craft

To those of us who like to know every single thing there is to know about a subject there is unfortunately no detailed recording of the origins of making wine. Archaeologists have discovered bas-reliefs depicting the making of wine during the ancient Egyptian civilization. There are also records in the Old Testament, which tell us about the making of wine at least 1,000 years before the birth of Christ. Other archaeological findings, including piles of grape pips, give us reason to believe that wine has been made for something like 10,000 years. It is thought that mead, a fermented solution of honey, is even older and may have been made for some 12,000 years. We know, too, that cider is a very old drink. Indeed, there are reasons to believe that these fermented drinks were well-known to the Persian civilization, which, of course, preceded the Egyptian.

The word 'wine', as we know it today, comes not from the Latin 'vinum' or, as might be more popularly thought, the French word 'vin', but rather from the Greek 'oitlas', which in turn came from the ancient Arabic.

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