[SunkenCiv]

Wine pressing platforms were usually found outside of towns, nearer the vineyards themselves

[JoeProBono]

[Trentamj]

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to learn that the ancient Imperial province of Gaul continues to cultivate a key Roman cash-crop that it was made to produce since the salad days of Julius Caesar.

[ClearCase_guy]

Of course, almost all European wine is partially American due to phylloxera and the need to graft European vines to American rootstock.

From wikipedia:

The use of resistant American rootstock to guard against phylloxera also brought about a debate that remains unsettled to this day: whether self-rooted vines produce better wine than those that are grafted. Of course, the argument is essentially irrelevant wherever phylloxera exists. Had American rootstock not been available and used, there would be no V. vinifera wine industry in Europe or most places other than Chile, Washington State, and most of Australia. Cyprus was spared the phylloxera plague, and thus its wine stock has not been grafted for phylloxera resistant purposes.

[blam]

DNA studies have shown that the Etruscans are from Turkey.

Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey

[Larry Lucido]

The Etruscans, a pre-Roman civilisation in Italy, are thought to have gained wine culture from the Phoenician

Who knew Arizona had vineyards?