On the origin of wine , different opinions and uncompromising ; was talking about comes from ancient Egypt, was said to have originated in Ancient Greece , there are people talking about comes from the Greek island of Crete .

To study the origin of the wine , the first material to determine wine - grape origin. According to historical records , grape cultivation and brewing techniques , is a new territory with the travelers and conquerors , from small Asia and Egypt , Greece and various islands in the reach before spread to the Greek island of Crete , and then by Italy, Sicily , North Africa, Libya and Italy , arrived in France from the brink of the Mediterranean Sea southeast of the Var region of Provence and the sea within the coastal areas of Spain . At the same time , also by land from Europe , the Danube valley into the Central Asian countries .

In China, some scholars believe that the Shang dynasty 3,000 years ago has been the wine. Information that excavated in Henan Province in 1980, a late Shang Dynasty tombs , people found a sealed bronze wine container . The professor of Peking University , confirm that the copper wine container of wine to wine . The grapes used in wine at that time , whether cultivated or wild , the professors did not mention .

In addition, archaeological data show that in the mid- Commerce site of a wine workshop , there are still remnants of a ceramic peach , plum, ? such as the fruit of the seeds in fruit . Thus , many years ago , intelligent Chinese people would have to be used with a variety of wine was in fruit .