Georgia - Origins of the world's oldest wine | Worldwide Wine Civilizations

In Georgia they don’t ask, “How are you?”, but “How’s your vine?”. Here wine is sacred!
At the foot of the Greater Caucasus, Georgia has kept a thousands-of-years-old secret that it is trying to tell the world. Vines and wine are said to have begun here more than six thousand years ago. Ever since antiquity they have made wine here and they still store it in jars, known as “qvevris” buried under the ground. Today this unique history and skill is trying to reemerge, in a land that has always lived from and for the vine.
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Introduction
▷ 00:21 - The uniqueness of viticulture counts more than a thousand years
▷ 06:18 - The oldest wine in the world
▷ 10:10 - The Qvevri and its winemaking technique
▷ 16:08 - The history of Georgian vines
▷ 21:37 - Adapting Georgian grapes to modern winemaking techniques
▷ 23:08 - Celebrating the sacred bond between the people and their vineyards
▷ 25:36 - Credits

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The fruit of a long history, of a natural environment and of the labors of those for whom it is a passion, each vineyard tells the tale of a unique civilization. Worldwide Wine Civilizations is an exceptional documentary series devoted to exploring winemaking regions around the globe. In addition to delving into a region’s wine production, each episode will also explore local history, its architecture, art, science, techniques, and a host of other subjects. Worldwide Wine Civilizations will feature breathtaking 4k aerial cinematography of the world’s most picturesque winemaking regions. With each episode, the spectator will be plunged into the heart of a winemaking civilization in Europe, South America, North America, Asia, and Polynesia. This series will take viewers on a voyage through time and space, seeking out and discovering past and present civilizations, exploring their grandiose natural environments and their complex and multifaceted cultures.

Original title: Worldwide wine civilizations - A journey to the origins of vine (Georgia)
Directed by Pierre Goetschel

2016-17 © Licensed by GAD
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