
Origins of Wine, Past and Present
(JQ with Mindia Jalabadze from the National Museum, at a Neolithic-era [5900BC] archeological site where ancient clay wine vessels were discovered, nearly identical to those still in use today) Near the town of Marneuli, about an hour south of Tbilisi on the way to Armenia, you can see a nondescript hill of brown earth at a close distance. Take a sharp right through an off-road jungle of heat-scorched sunflower fields, and as you approach, it begins to take on something of a