Classic grapevines have a long, continuous history
SINCE ITS domestication more than 6,000 years ago, the grapevine has become one of the world’s most valuable crops. Although grapevines produce a great many foods including table grapes, raisins, preserves and cooked leaves, archaeological evidence makes it clear that wine came very early on. Yet it has remained mysterious whether the grapes crushed to make wine long ago were at all similar to those that are crushed in wineries today.
Since Roman texts written by the philosopher Pliny the Elder describe practices like grafting in association with grapevines, Dr Ramos-Madrigal and Dr Wales expected to find some similarities between modern grapes and those of grapes harvested over 2,000 years ago. They did.
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