[blam]

GGG Ping.

[AmericanMade1776]

China also invented noodles before the Italians.

[Prime Choice]

Here's to th' Chines--*HIC*
Here's to th' Chine--*HIC*
Here's to th'--*HIC*

Ah hell...here's to South Koreans.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

China was drinking wine 9,000 years ago

They must be middling blotto by now...

[anniegetyourgun]

Great. Maybe they can give the Sonoma valley a run for their money.....exclusively distributed at WalMart.....

[Irish_Thatcherite]

China was drinking wine 9,000 years ago

They must be middling blotto by now...

[iconoclast]

Was it made by prisoners?

[speedy]

I hear that the wine was assertive, but not overbearing, with notes of rutabaga and jicama at mid-palate and finishing with a strong overtone of gumout.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

7000BC - a good year.

[Classicaliberalconservative]

Chinese wine sucks. Way too sweet and not enough alcohol.

[xJones]

At least we know the deceased died happy.

[Coyoteman]

Does this mean they are French? Funny, they don't look French.

Series, if they have been drinking wine that long you'd think they would be mellowed out by now.

[taxcontrol]

The team found and analyzed chemical traces left by the fermented drinks on pottery shards.

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Ok, I cant POSSIBLY think of a means of checking old pottery for trace elements of win as being an economically viable occupation - so I'm suspecting this was funded by a grant.

So lets think about the justification for such a grant....

[swhhhhh - sound of someone toking]
And then we will tell them we are looking for wine on old pieces of clay. [laughter] Yeah that will be good.....


[sigh]

[Young Werther]

1,000,000,000 bottles of wine on the wall 1,000,000,000 bottles of wine, if one of those Chinese ancestors of Mulan drink a bottle of wine 999,999,999 on the wall!

[nickcarraway]

ping

[BruceysMom]

That explains so much about their alphabet.....

[muawiyah]

At the time these folks could have been just about anybody, but for sure not the same as the modern populations in China.

Odds are the fruits were added for purposes of flavor, but the rice was an absolute necessity since the fruits of that time would have had little sugar content.

A few thousand more years of selective breeding was needed to develop high sugar content grapes and apples.

[fastattacksailor]

I am happy to report that I'm drinking a Merlot right now
;-)

[docbnj]

This adds another great accomplishment to the role of honor for Chinese culture. Partial list:
1. compass
2. gunpowder
3. rockets
4. noodles and pasta generally
5. ravioli (stuffed pasta)
6. paper
7. paper money
8. printing with moveable type
9. porcelain ("China") dinnerware
10. bronze casting of large objects
11. healing by sticking pins in patient
12. foot-binding
13. use of famine as method of population control
14. construction of giant wall and other tourist attractions
...and finally, the most amazing:
15. speaking, reading, and writing in Chinese!

[Michael.SF.]

9000 years ago?

So with all that experience, why do we not see any bottles of Chateau Tsing Tao fetching $1,000's of dollars a bottle like some Napa wines (making wines only since the mid 1800's) or French or German wines?