Wine

Wine cultivation started in Middle East before 4000 BC. Wine was produced and transported from Zagros Mountains through Euphates and Tigris rivers for trading in the Mesopotamian plains. Mostly wine was offered for ritual ceremonies and consumed by the upper class. Wine trade started form here and spread over to Greece, Crete, Phoenicia, and Egypt. Wine import evidence came in existence, when found in the burial chamber of an Egyptian king named Scorpion I, who ruled the region around 3150BC.

Egyptians started wine making in around 3000 вЂ" 2500 BC and documented the wine making procedures and patterns of wine consumption. During those time Viticulture, the culture of WINE MAKING, was limited to certain parts of Egypt, after Egypt was colonized by the Greeks, they started expanding the local viticulture to larger areas of the country, which made it possible for wine to get consumed by a wider range of consumer, mostly Greeks. Wine trade started from Egypt and Crete from as early as 2500BC. Crete and Egypt spread wine production to other geographies, like Aegean Island, Greece, Sicily, Southern Italy and northern Africa, later around 500 years places like France, Italy and Portugal also got introduce to wine production trade and around the Third Century, a true Wine Industry, which was fully operationally not only in producing but also in supplying wine to other geographies was developed by the Greeks.

Roman Empire introduced viticulture to the regions they colonized, hence spreading the Wine Industry and as a result, wine was produced throughout the Roman Empire, where ever the climatic and environment conditions were favorable. It was Romans, who were responsible, for introducing viticulture and wine production in France and they moved it to interiors. This resulted in expansion of viticulture in Great Britain and parts of Northern Europe.

During the Greek and Roman empire the spread of Viniculture,