It happens in September and is well worth attending if you wish to get very drunk, there are thousands of litres of free booze on offer, and thousands of people attending. Unless of course you are a wine buff, in which case it is plonk city for a week, If your interest is 'wine' then we have the expert for you. Patrick Skinner has written a book on the subject of Cyprus wine, and we are very lucky to have him writing for us in these pages. To go directly to his pages click here. A little bit of History The Greek connection Towards the millennium Wines of the Month Wine growing is one of the oldest crafts on the island, and a third of the agriculturists here are involved in the production of the noble grape.
Wine is far older than recorded history .
It emerges with civilization itself from the East. The evidence from tablets and papyri and Egyptian tombs fills volumes. Mankind, as we recognize ourselves, working, quarrelling, loving and worrying, comes on the scene with the support of a jug of wine. In the next 500 years it reached at least Spain, Portugal and the south of France 5 and probably southern Russia as well. Finally it spread with the Romans into northern Europe 6, getting as far as Britain.