full title, "A first-of-its-kind discovery of 1,500 year-old grape seeds may answer the question: Why was the wine of the Negev so renowned in the Byzantine Empire-February 2015".
it was the feet or what was on them
I imagine it was a very dry wine. Very dry.
Why were Babylonian cooks, Macedonian stave binders, brewers of Jerusalem and Egyptian swineherds considered grave insults?
It will be very interesting to see what the DNA turns up about the ancestry of the vines. One would think the origin would not be European because of the aridity of the Negev.
To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, “Wine is God’s way of telling us he loves us and wants us to be happy.”
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