Who invented wine? We have a lot to thank them for. It is tempting to believe that this nectar of the gods was handed down to mankind from the heavens; perhaps Zeus gifted it to us from Mount Olympus. But the reality, at least as far as archeologists have been able to discern, is that it was the ancient people of the Caucasus who first fermented grape juice and found that they rather enjoyed the taste. 8,000 years ago, the inhabitants of what is now the country of Georgia were already master winemakers, storing their wine in clay vessels, fragments of which have survived to the present
