Season 5: Alcohol and Friends- Wine: A Love Affair with An Ancient Fruit

PlantStories: The Modern, the old, and the crazy in between!

You might think that you know everything about wine. But if our alcohol season has taught me anything, it's that nothing is like I remember it. Made from a plant who's beginnings are much older than you might imagine, wine is a beverage we've been indulging in for thousands of years. Join us this week as we talk about wine in our season finale!
Wine is well known for it's associating with beautiful grape vines and the French. But did you know that we can trace grapes back millions of years? And our love affair with them, while somewhat unknown, started thousands of years ago possibly around the same time we started making pottery. Since then empires have spread it across the world and today it is one of the most popular alcoholic drinks from the Americas, the China, to everywhere in between. Join us as we discuss some of the origins of wine and the grape, a beautiful varied plant that gives us this wonderful gift.
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