Discovering the World’s Oldest Winery

Sidedoor

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🗓️ 14 March 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Sidedoor host Tony Cohn gets the opportunity of a lifetime: fly to Armenia and crawl into a deep, dark cave in search of lost wine. But we’re not talking just any ol’ cabernet or sauvignon blanc, these 6000-year-old remains are evidence of the world's oldest winery. In this episode, we ask: What can this ancient winery tell us about the earliest days of civilization, and could a thirst for wine be the reason why some ancient humans decided to settle down and stop being nomadic?

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Tony.
0:01.6	So we've been busy chasing down some stories
0:03.8	all over the world for Side Door season three.
0:06.6	But there's also some cool stuff happening
0:08.2	just on the street from us.
0:09.8	The Smithsonian Folklife Festival
0:11.3	kicks off today, June 27th, on the National Mall
0:14.8	here in Washington DC. It's a tradition that's happened since 1967 and this
0:19.7	year part of what they're celebrating is Armenian culture.
0:23.0	So we thought we'd bring the festival to you,
0:25.8	side door style, with one of our favorite episodes.
0:29.2	It involved me flying to Armenia,
0:31.2	crawling into a dark bat-infested cave, and, okay, well, you're about to find out everything else.
0:37.0	Enjoy. This is Sidor, a podcast from a Smithsonian with support from PRX.
0:51.6	I'm Tony Cohn.
0:52.6	Wow.
0:53.6	So we're walking into the cave now.
0:58.6	Wow.
1:01.0	So we're walking into the cave now and it's kind of like the walls are getting narrower and narrower.
1:06.3	Back in the fall, I had the opportunity of a lifetime.
1:09.6	But the ceiling is really, really high and it's dark.
1:14.8	I flew to Armenia with a crew of my colleagues from the Smithsonian Center for Folk Life
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