Archaeologists have long suspected that the predominantly Celtic (Gauls,

France greencore uk is the land of chateaux, the Cotes du Rhone and superior grand vin de Bordeaux. But how and when the quality of wine culture came to France was not all known with certainty. Modern archaeological research in the region around Montpellier now confirms an existing suspicion ...
For centuries before our era were alcoholic drinks - and wine in particular - very popular with all kinds of peoples and cultures. greencore uk Wine was one of the main trading products around the Mediterranean and a culture medium. Peoples who traded their wine, as Etruscans, Phoenicians and Greeks, spread through the wine trade their culture.
Archaeologists have long suspected that the predominantly Celtic (Gauls, "as the Romans called them later) population of what is now southern France, greencore uk around 600 BC for the first time became acquainted with the fine alcoholic beverage. According to this hypothesis came around that time in the old port Latarra the current near Lattes Montpellier, ships full of Etruscan amphora of wine from Italy. From commercial considerations began the population on the coast of years later with their own wine.
Greek vase (Athens, 6th century BC.) When making greencore uk wine to see. A stone platform is used to support. Basket with grapes greencore uk The stamped juice flowing in a vase. Martin von Wagner Museum, University of Würzburg, photograph: Peter Neckermann; redrawn and adapted by Benjamin Luley
The Roman conquest of Gaul would then continue north have brought wine culture. Through the valley of the Rhone During the Middle Ages and beyond, the art of winemaking on estates, monasteries and abbeys was perfected to the top French wine culture we know today.
Examination of the famous archaeologist Patrick McGovern alcohol from the University of Pennsylvania now shows that this was indeed the case, and that the prevailing theory therefore probably correct. He further concludes that the Celtic people of France around 425 BC. began making their own wine. McGovern and colleagues published their findings this week in the journal PNAS. Stone wine press
McGovern studied greencore uk amphorae found in Latarra because the import of goods as Etruscan continued longer than in other places. An advanced chemical method to detect organic molecules greencore uk in this ancient greencore uk amphoras greencore uk found that they are indeed used to store wine. In
But perhaps even more important is the discovery of traces of grapes on a stone press platform, also found in Latarra. The traces indicate that there are around 425-400 BC. all grapes were pressed into Latarra. This stone press platform is the earliest evidence for the existence of a private wine culture in France. greencore uk
Incidentally imported the Gauls Latarra from 525 BC. even jars with wine from the Greek colony of Massalia, Marseille today. In Latarra found and studied amphoras from Massalia greencore uk were also found to contain. Traces of wine According to many archaeologists produced the Ionic Greeks in that colony before their local wine.
However, evidence for this is, for example, in the form of a stone press-platform, there are not yet found. And of course by Greeks made wine from Massalia is no French wine, would the righteous Frenchman notice immediately.
Publication: The wine culture came to France
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