Abstract
Historically, the Mediterranean countries associated with wine production; we have many evidences which prove the archaic industry of wine in these countries. Although some countries could adopt a new trend of tourism based on wine and definite the visitors the steps of wine process from harvesting to storage; this new type has met a great demand in tourism marketing, but others couldn 't promote this new type which has known as 'Wine Tourism '. Although the iconographical, archaeological and textual sources from ancient Egypt confirm that the wine was already produced there in the third millennium BC. Egypt did not promote this new type for many reasons concerned with customs and traditions in modern society. The scenes which are …show more content…
Wine tourism is as a new type of tourism which is invented by some countries; for example Italia gave a great interest to this new type from 10 years ago and annually it is held a ceremonial of wine attending by more than 4 Millions of visitors. Italy use this great event to recognize the visitors the winemaking and place of viticulture and best types of wine. Wine had a long history in many Mediterranean civilizations, especially in Egypt which had known with wine production. It is popular that wine was a prestigious product consumed mainly by the upper classes and the royal family. Wine was offered in the daily temple rituals, in funerary offerings (Meyer, 1986) and used in medical treatments. It is worth noting that many scenes of viticulture and winemaking are depicted on the walls of the private tombs from the Old Kingdom (2575-2150 BC) through the Graeco-Roman times (332 BC-395 AD). All these scenes provide us with much more information about how the wine was made ; the scenes showing that the procedures are very similar to the traditional European method (Guasch-Jané 2008; Guasch 2010). The wine in Greek- Roman civilization had occupied great …show more content…
While it cooks and the liquid evaporates, the sugar content becomes concentrated into a kind of grape syrup. The next step was to filter the syrup, removing the seeds and skins. The liquid that remained was poured into a jar of fermented wine. This started a second fermentation and increased the percentage of alcohol and also prolonged the preservation time. Furthermore, the sweetness of the wine was increased. There are other steps follow the manufacture of wine such as; labeling and storage, the labels system of wine process are known from ancient Egyptian civilization; they manage this step by skillful and accuracy to register all important data on these vessels. In modern studies for wine production we can classify this information which is found on ancient Egyptians ' jars ' such as; Vintage, Classification, source of Production, Ownership, and Signature of responsible
Historically, the Mediterranean countries associated with wine production; we have many evidences which prove the archaic industry of wine in these countries. Although some countries could adopt a new trend of tourism based on wine and definite the visitors the steps of wine process from harvesting to storage; this new type has met a great demand in tourism marketing, but others couldn 't promote this new type which has known as 'Wine Tourism '. Although the iconographical, archaeological and textual sources from ancient Egypt confirm that the wine was already produced there in the third millennium BC. Egypt did not promote this new type for many reasons concerned with customs and traditions in modern society. The scenes which are …show more content…
Wine tourism is as a new type of tourism which is invented by some countries; for example Italia gave a great interest to this new type from 10 years ago and annually it is held a ceremonial of wine attending by more than 4 Millions of visitors. Italy use this great event to recognize the visitors the winemaking and place of viticulture and best types of wine. Wine had a long history in many Mediterranean civilizations, especially in Egypt which had known with wine production. It is popular that wine was a prestigious product consumed mainly by the upper classes and the royal family. Wine was offered in the daily temple rituals, in funerary offerings (Meyer, 1986) and used in medical treatments. It is worth noting that many scenes of viticulture and winemaking are depicted on the walls of the private tombs from the Old Kingdom (2575-2150 BC) through the Graeco-Roman times (332 BC-395 AD). All these scenes provide us with much more information about how the wine was made ; the scenes showing that the procedures are very similar to the traditional European method (Guasch-Jané 2008; Guasch 2010). The wine in Greek- Roman civilization had occupied great …show more content…
While it cooks and the liquid evaporates, the sugar content becomes concentrated into a kind of grape syrup. The next step was to filter the syrup, removing the seeds and skins. The liquid that remained was poured into a jar of fermented wine. This started a second fermentation and increased the percentage of alcohol and also prolonged the preservation time. Furthermore, the sweetness of the wine was increased. There are other steps follow the manufacture of wine such as; labeling and storage, the labels system of wine process are known from ancient Egyptian civilization; they manage this step by skillful and accuracy to register all important data on these vessels. In modern studies for wine production we can classify this information which is found on ancient Egyptians ' jars ' such as; Vintage, Classification, source of Production, Ownership, and Signature of responsible