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“The birds are very angry,” says Visnja Zdjelarevic. Thousands of starlings have darkened the late afternoon October sky, their cries thwarting conversation. Then, after a mass landing on the nearby ...

When Zeinulla Kakimzhanov took over a dilapidated vineyard in the foothills of the Tian Shan Mountains in south-eastern Kazakhstan in 2006, he had ample reason to wonder whether the property would ...

9,000-year-old ancient Near Eastern 'wine culture,' traveling land and sea, reaches southern coastal France, via ancient Etruscans of Italy, in 6th-5th century BCE PHILADELPHIA, PA June 2013—France is ...

A study provides evidence of winemaking in Georgia in the South Caucasus as early as 6000-5800 BC. As climate in the mountainous Near East improved following the last Ice Age, Neolithic ...

A highlight of the Wine Harvest Commemorative Event – which was fittingly hosted at South Africa’s oldest wine-producing farm, Groot Constantia – is the honouring of key individuals and organisations ...

France is renowned the world over as a leader in the crafts of viticulture and winemaking -- but the beginnings of French viniculture have been largely unknown, until now. Imported ancient Etruscan ...