It was probably developed by accident. if fruit or for that mater just about any vegetable is stored, under the right conditions they can start to spoil and ferment. no doubt this happened somewhere along the line where the product remained appetising and had the well known effects of alcohol that so many of us seem to get a kick from. After that is was only a mater of time before the birth of the first wine snob.
No one knows exactly when, where, or how wine making originated. One authority has written that the earliest Alcoholic Beverages may have been made from berries or honey and that wine making may have originated in the wild grape regions of the Middle East. According to the Old Testament, Noah planted a vineyard on Mt. Ararat in what is now eastern Turkey.
No - the tradition is that the god of wine Dionysus brought it from the east. Today we still call some wine varieties after places around the Middle East - Shiraz, Muscat.
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Wine decanters originate from the region of Syria, in the Middle East. This area is north of the nations of Jordan and Israel, east of Lebanon, and west of Iraq.
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Most from France, but anywhere that wine was produced and needed to be tasted to test it's quality.