 Research very often has big surprises in store.You might think, as I did too, that the grape wines of Hajji Firuz, the Caucasus, and eastern Anatolia would prove to be the earliest alcoholic beverages in the world, coming from the so-called “Cradle of Civilization” in the Near East as they do.But then I was invited to go to China on the other side of Asia, and came back with samples that proved to be even earlier–from around 7000 BC.” Furthermore, other scholarly research has stated that