Viticulture: Cultivation of Grapes

The cultivation, production and scientific process of grape cultivation is called grape cultivation. Grape cultivation is one of the oldest cultivation of human beings after grain cultivation, and dates back to 7000 in the Neolithic Age. Grape growing started in the Mediterranean region, spreading to the Middle East and Asia, and gradually moved to the world. According to records, the first grape harvest took place in 5400 BC, local Georgian and Armenian countries were called.

Since the early 1980s, the number of winemakers and wineries has increased in Yakima Valley. In 1983, the Yakima Valley plantation in the United States was named the first AVA in Washington. New varieties of grapes are cultivated every year, and Yakima Valley has one-third of the vineyards in Washington State. The most widely cultivated varieties are Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Schiller, Chardonnay, Riesling and others. Yakima Valley has more than 80 wineries, accounting for about 40% of Washington state wine production. Washington State is the second largest wine growing country in the United States. The wine industry brings a rating of about $ 3 billion to the state

More than 1 million vineyards are planted. Grape trees have been grown from wild grapes for thousands of years, but since grape cultivation was introduced by the Mycenae and Greeks to Sicily and southern Italy, Greek colonization was the most in Italian wine production It played a big role. The Romans changed during the mistake. Carthago Later, Italian wines began to flourish further, mass production and inexpensive labor farms in all areas were born. After a while it seems that certain parts of the vineyard were forced to be destroyed to release fertilizer space for food and other production. In the prehistoric era, according to the above Greeks, some laws and politics were transcended in Italy and grape growing outside of Italy was prohibited under Greek law. Wine is the subject of trade between slaves from one state to another.

Due to Greek islands and continental climate and terrain ideal for vine cultivation, wine is sufficiently wide and affordable. From the 7th century BC, the entire Greek vineyard spread rapidly from Arcadia and Sparta on the Peloponnese Peninsula to Attica around Athens. The Greeks were the first to produce wine on a large commercial scale and used a systematic and even scientific approach to grape cultivation. The Greek writing on this subject starts with the work of Hesiod, written in the 8th century AD, and includes proposals on how and when to trim, harvest and squeeze grapes. Greek wine merchant design