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The future of a very old industry

o a quick Google search, and you will discover that wine is one of the oldest industries on earth. A 2017 study by a team of archaeologists found evidence of wine-making in Tbilisi, Georgia almost 8 000 years ago. To put that in perspective, it is almost 2 000 years before humans domesticated horses, 2 600 years before we invented writing and 3 300 years before we built the first pyramid. What is more, Georgian winemakers today use largely the same tools and methods as their ancestors eight millennia ago.

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