The cradle of wine stood in the area around present-day Armenia and Georgia. This is well known and widely accepted. Grape seeds and remnants of drinking vessels found indicate that this is where people made wine for the first time.
Both countries are still active wine producers. In October (2021), a group of Italian and Kurdish archaeologists discovered the remains of a 2,700-year-old wine press in eastern Iraq. The press has probably been in a winery big enough to produce large volumes of wine.
This is from the time of the Assyrian kings who ruled in the eighth century BC. The archaeologists found 14 installations used to crush grapes, extract the must and then transform it into wine. This is said to be the first discovery of its kind in Iraq.
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