Chapter 2: A Short History of Wine

Question 1

Mesopotamia

Answer 1

The Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern-day Iran & Iraq and portions of Turkey and Syria). Native region of Vitis vinifera.

Question 2

Era when the first wines were accidentally produced

Answer 2

Neolithic Era (5000 B.C - 7000 B.C)

Question 3

Egyptian god responsible for wine and harvest, life, death, and afterlife

Answer 3

Osiris

Question 4

Greek god of wine and revelry

Answer 4

Dionysus

Question 5

Tall, large pottery vessels used to store and age wines in ancient Greece

Answer 5

Amphorae

Question 6

Greek name for the region known as modern day Italy

Answer 6

Enotria “land of wine”

Question 7

Roman god of wine

Answer 7

Bacchus

Question 8

Roman wine bars or taverns

Answer 8

Thermopolia