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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/worlds-oldest-winery-discovered.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The earliest known winery has been uncovered in the mountains of Armenia" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-worlds-oldest-winery-discovered.jpg" alt="The earliest known winery has been uncovered in the mountains of Armenia"/></a></p>
<p>The earliest known winery has been uncovered in a cave in the mountains of Armenia.</p>
<p>A vat to press the grapes, fermentation jars and even a cup and drinking bowl dating to about 6,000 years ago were discovered in the cave complex by an international team of researchers.</p>
<p>While older evidence of wine drinking has been found, this is the earliest example of complete wine production, according to Gregory Areshian of the University of California, Los Angeles, co-director of the excavation.</p>
<p>The findings, announced by the National Geographic Society, are published in the online edition of the Journal of Archaeological Science.</p>
<p>&#8220;The evidence argues convincingly for a wine-making facility,&#8221; said Patrick McGovern, scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, who was not part of the research team.</p>
<p>Such large scale wine production implies that the Eurasian grape had already been domesticated, said Mr McGovern, author of Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages.</p>
<p>The same Armenian area was the site of the discovery of the oldest known leather shoe, dated about 5,500 years ago. That discovery at the area known as Areni-1 was reported last summer.</p>
<p>According to the archaeologists, inside the cave was a shallow basin about three-feet across that was positioned to drain into a deep vat. The basin could have served as a wine press where people stomped the grapes with their feet, a method Areshian noted was traditional for centuries.</p>
<p>They also found grape seeds, remains of pressed grapes and dozens of dried vines. The seeds were from the same type of grapes &#8211; Vitis vinifera vinifera &#8211; still used to make wine.</p>
<p>Because the wine-making facility was found surrounded by graves, the researchers suggest the wine may have been intended for ceremonial use.</p>
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