Taste of Armenia - A journey to Armenia.

Armenia Wine Flavors convey a history of wine-making. Paired with Mediterranean bites.

The Genesis of Wine: The World's First Winery. The oldest winery in the world has been uncovered in a cave in the mountains of Armenia. An international team of researchers discovered drinking bowl, a grape press, a cup, and fermentation jars dating to about 6,100 years ago in the cave at the area called Areni-1 in Armenia. The earliest evidence for grape domestication, in the form of 8,000-year-old grape seeds, was found just north of Armenia at Shulaveri gorge in Georgia.

The oldest example of wine—7,400-year-old residue on clay pots—was discovered just south of Armenia at Hajji Firuz Tepe in Iran. Across the Black Sea in northern Greece, findings from a settlement called Dikili Tash suggest that grapes were being crushed into wine there 6,300 years ago. But Areni-1, at 6,100 years old, is the first place where grapes and winemaking tools have been discovered together.

How the first prehistoric wines were made remains a matter of speculation.

What is certain is that Yacoubian-Hobbs Areni wines express the unique characteristics of this ancient variety with the focus and purity that modern winemaking techniques offer.

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