Wine is another of nature’s single ingredient miracles and also a product of fermentation.

The history of wine, which started out as simply grapes accidently fermented, in many ways coincides with the history of the western world. Historians generally agree that wine was probably discovered accidentally in the Fertile Crescent area, the region between the Nile and Persian Gulf during the time of the world’s first civilizations between 4000 and 3000 B.C. Simply fermented  grapes yes, but oh how many wonderful and magical variations on this theme there are now