DNA from ancient grape seeds connects Iberian vineyards to eastern Mediterranean plants—and reveals how growers preserved lineages across millennia.
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An analysis of DNA extracted from ancient grape seeds reveals that viticulture in Spain began with Phoenician colonizers, who arrived from the eastern Mediterranean some 3,000 years ago. The study,...
There is a variety of grapes, the hebén, that still grows in Spanish vineyards and that, according to this study, has not stopped growing for at least 1,100 years. Put in perspective: that places its origin at a date close to the proclamation of the Caliphate of Cordoba, in the year 929. Eleven centuries of continuity [...]