Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture

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Evidence for early viticulture in China: proof of a grapevine (Vitis vinifera L., Vitaceae) in the Yanghai Tombs, Xinjiang (2009, background): “Charred grapevine wood remain of V. vinifera was also reported in an early second millennium BC site of Nosiri in western Georgia (McGovern, 2003).”
Disease and Frost Damage of Woody Plants Caused by Pseudomonas syringae: Seeing the Forest for the Trees (2014, background): “The genus Vitis is native to Transcaucasia (McGovern, 2003), which comprises about 60 interfertile wild Vitis species.”
Genetic structure and domestication history of the grape (2011, background): “Archaeological evidence suggests that grape domestication took place in the South Caucasus between the Caspian and Black Seas and that cultivated vinifera then spread south to the western side of the Fertile Crescent, the Jordan Valley, and Egypt by 5,000 y ago (1, 21).”
Earliest evidence of a primitive cultivar of Vitis vinifera L. during the Bronze Age in Sardinia (Italy) (2015, background): “the production of fermented juice (McGovern 2003; Miller 2008).”
Chloroplast Microsatellites to Investigate the Origin of Grapevine (2006, background): “Varietal circulation, is strongly supported by archaeological findings, historical documentation and molecular genetics (Labra et al. 2003; McGovern 2003).”