The wine industry in
ancient Egypt.
The word (wine) usually expresses fermented juice for fresh grapes and the wine in this sense was the most important wine among the ancient Egyptians, although they had other wines as well, such as palm wine and dates wine and an
additional type was made from the fruit of the sewn, on the words of Pliny the Roman wine sometimes in the late era and pictures Egyptians also the way to make wine. As it appears that one of their favorite drinks and a clear view of this industry was a view in the "Ptahhotep" cemetery.
This was done by a large number of men gathering large clusters of grapes in baskets that they carried on their backs to the place of the era. There they empty them into large containers that are not deep and we do not know whether it is possible for wood or stone, then they trample the grapes with their legs, and this is done by five or six men combined. And the rhythm of the music.
Wines in ancient Egypt
1- Grape wine: -
Wine is often referred to in the ancient Egyptian texts meaning grape wine, and on the graves walls there were scenes of vineyards harvesting in which the grape harvest and his pedestal or age or all these processes were found, and in examples of this is a cemetery from the era of the Fifth Dynasty in Saqqara. And another from the era of the Sixth Dynasty, also with it, and a third from the reign of the Twelfth Dynasty in Barsha. And several tombs from this era also in Bani Hassan.
Date wine (ethnic): -
The fruits of dates were always of special value to the ancient Egyptians and they extracted from it a type of dates wine they call in Upper Egypt (customary) and it is famous for its manufacture to this day. Some countries of Qena Governorate, such as Naqada, are used in medical drugs, especially in laxatives, and as a drink.
Palm wine
It consisted of palm tree sap and obtained this sap by making grooves in the tree roots just below the base of its upper branches. The liquids, as soon as it is taken from the palm tree, are not intoxicating, but it acquires this quality by fermentation when it remains.
Stitched fruit wine: -
As for the sewn fruit wine, there is no indication of it that can be referred to, except what Pliny mentioned was that it was made in Egypt and the threaded tree cordia myxa, which is grown in the gardens in Egypt, is a sticky fruit that theophrastus called "the Egyptian plum" and described it without indicating any use of it in making wine
