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Interstellar clouds of ethanol, methanol, and vinyl ethanol (aka alcohol that judges you for listening to compressed audio files and using air pods) may have coalesced around dust & been picked up by passing comets - COMETS!!! - traveling the cosmos and in time possibly seeding the Earth with organic matter and the building blocks of life.
Around Wadi al-Natuf near Ramallah, the Natufian people develop a sedentary society and begin early stages of agriculture, engage in various types of fermentation
Two independent events take place domesticating the grapevine in modern day Georgia Armenia and in the Levant
Evidence of resinated wine in a mudbrick kitchen in Hajji Firuz Tepe
World’s oldest known winery is found in a cave in the Vayots Dzor region of Armenia
The Phoenicians, in what is now modern-day Lebanon, spread vines and winemaking knowledge throughout the Mediterranean - Egyptians of the time said the wine of Canaan was ‘more abundant than water’
Roman temple to Bacchus is erected at Heliopolis (Baalbek) in the Bekaa Valley
Anonymous author of “A Description of the World and It’s People” states “Ashkelon and Gaza export the best wine to all Syria and Egypt.”
Arak!!!
Ottoman rule more or less forbids wine production, but with loopholes
Cremisan Winery is established by Salesian monks in Beit Jala, Palestine
Serge Hochar’s first vintage as winemaker of Château Musar
At the start of Lebanon’s Civil War there are 6 wineries in the country
Number of wineries in Lebanon grows from 4 to nearly 80
Fadi Batarseh publishes his thesis on indigenous Palestinian grape varieties at the University of Udine (and Hebron)
Sari Khoury produces first vintage of Philokalia, Bethlehem