News Headline
Researchers Discover Italy’s Oldest Wine in Sicilian Cave
Source
Smithsonian
Publication Date
2017-09-01
Barolo, Barbaresco, Brunello—Italian wines are some of the best in the world. And there’s a reason for that: They've been making it for thousands of years. Now, a new find suggests they've been at it even longer than people thought. As Lorenzo Tondo at The Guardian reports, researchers have found traces of 6,000-year-old wine in a Sicilian cave. Although it's not the oldest in the world, the latest find has pushed back the date wine production on the Italian Peninsula by thousands of years.