The residues of the beverage, dated ca. 7000–6600 BCE, were recovered from early pottery from Jiahu, a Neolithic village in the Yellow River Valley. This beverage currently predates the earliest evidence of grape wine from the Middle East by more than 500 years.

The earliest evidence of fermented alcoholic beverage of rice, honey and fruit, sometimes compared to wine, is claimed in China (c. 7000 BC). [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] The altered consciousness produced by wine has been considered religious since its origin.

Nov 13, 2017 · In 2011, a wine press and fermentation jars from about 6,000 years ago were found in a cave in Armenia. The world's earliest non-grape based wine is believe to be a fermented alcoholic beverage...

Mar 18, 2025 · This “wine” was made from rice, honey, and hawthorn fruti/and or grape around 7000 – 6600 BCE, making it the oldest alcoholic beverage in the world with definitive proof. Scientists analyzed shards of pottery from 16 different vessels to determine what this Chinese fermented beverage was made from.

Nov 14, 2017 · That honour belongs to the long-ago people of Jiahu in the Yellow Valley of China, where researchers previously found evidence of an even earlier kind of wine production dating back to around 7000 BCE. But this heady drop wasn't the wine we know and love today, and incorporated hawthorn fruit, rice, and honey mead, in addition to grapes.

Nov 13, 2017 · Archaeologists excavating in the Republic of Georgia have unearthed wine jars dating back to 6000 BCE, the earliest evidence of the domestication of the Eurasian grapevine for the purpose of making wine.

world’s oldest wine from jiahu in china Vessels with the oldest wine The earliest evidence of wine making comes from China: traces of a fermented drink made with rice, honey, and either grapes or hawthorne fruit found in Jiahu and dated to 7000 B.C.

Residue from a jar from Godin Tepe, in the nearby middle Zagros Mountains, was dated to 5,100 years ago, until now the earliest evidence of wine-making. Grape presses dating to the late third...

7000 BCE. The earliest evidence of a grape and rice mixed based fermented drink sometimes compared to wine was found in ancient China.

Alcohol dates back to around 7000 BCE, with evidence of fermented beverages found in ancient China. What is the oldest alcoholic beverage? Wine from the Caucasus region, dating to 6000 BCE, is among the oldest known alcoholic drinks.