Wine with Leslie: Greece has been making wine for millennia — here are three to try

Wine consumption was considered essential for the development of philosophical ideas, cf.: The modern Irish pub. 

If we take all of wine history into account, Greece may be a better candidate than France for the mother country of wine

France may be modern wine’s ‘mother country’ as I wrote recently, but if we take all of wine history into account, Greece may be a better candidate. 

There is archaeological evidence Greece has been making wine for at least 6,500 years. Older sites are found in Armenia and Georgia but those cultures don’t seem to have exported their wines or their wine knowledge in the way Greece did to its colonies in France, southern Italy, and North Africa (Carthage in modern Tunisia).