Our wine age begins with the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians who populated the Mediterranean area approximately 1500 bc. At that time, the wine came into those countries, that should become its true home: Italy, France and Spain. The first vineyards in Northafrika, South Spain, the Provence, on Sicily, the Italian mainland and at the black sea originated at the time of the ancient Greeks and Phoenicians grew wine on a large scale.
The ancient Greeks in the south of Italy, the Etruscans in the Tuscany and further in the north the Romans followed their example. So much was written about wine-growing in ancient Rome that an approximate chart of wines of the early Roman empire can be set up.
The greatest authors, even Vergil, wrote treatises about the wine-growing. The sentence from his feather "vines loves an open mountain" maybe the best advice.
