Wine's Ancestors

The history of wine is as old as human history. For that reason wine has had a great influence between civilitations who have learnt to make and appreciate it. Prehistoric man knew perfectly how to make wine and paleonthologists have found fosils that seem to have been wine residues or pressed grapes. The oldest human writings, including day panels from Babilonia or papyrus in Ancient Egipt, contain a great variety of references to the grape.

The importance of wine through history

The christian civilization has transmited to us the symbolic concept of the creation of wine by Noam. In spite of that the manufacturing of wine was started in the Middle East and China 3000 years before Jesuschrist. One of the best known vines in pharaonic years was Kankomet, which was grown in Ramses III vineyard (1998-1167 b.C.). This wine is mentioned more than 200 times in the Bible, and the fact that Jesuschrist chose it as an important part of the main ritual of christian cult reflects the extraordinary importance wine had Jewish people during that time.

Wine and healt 

The wine qualities that man has made through history, would probably be considered less to middling what we demand now. Until XIX century, many of the wines consumed were always wines of the same year because of difficulties of conservation. It is possible to say that thanks to Pasteur modern Enology was born, which is like wine medicine. Wine is and will be an authentic partner of man through time, because an honest wine is happiness for heart and peace for the spirit, and mediterranean gones in which civilization and stocks grown will pressure ths enological heritage. 
Wine is a perfect energy fountain and it is easly assimilated by our own body. Wine provides 80 calories x 0.100 l. These calories that wine provides are used by our body. For the general maintenance and for muscular energy. If wine affects human longevity is unknown. In spite of that, stadistical studies have shown that moderated drinkers are the longest lived, more than teetotal and those who drink excessively.

In mediterranean countries, diet is characterized by containing food like olive oil, pulses, blue fish, vegetable fibre and above all a moderated consumption alcoholic drinks of low alcohol percentage. All these factors inside mediterranean diet have determined that countries who have it have less cardiovascular illnesses and different types of cancer in relation to northern countries.

Wine contains different types of vitamins. These vitamins help in a complementary way to the vitaminic needs of our bodies.

Vitamin C is found in the unfermented grape juice and during the fermentation process, but it dissappears later. In spite of that, the addition of vitamin C to wine is usual and authorized nowadays, before being bottled, to preserve its qualities. Vitamin A is found in less quantities. In spite of that, different tipes of vitamin B are found. Wine also contains less quantities of iron and that's because it is recommended in anaemic cases.

While there are men on the Earth, it is very probable that the taste for wine will continue, year to year through complicated and still ignored biological processes, thanks to the taste man has been collecting between its brenches; the mistery of life.