biostudies-literatureUnknown110(25)McGovern PEChemical analyses of ancient organic compounds absorbed into the pottery fabrics of imported Etruscan amphoras (ca. 500-475 B.C.) and into a limestone pressing platform (ca. 425-400 B.C.) at the ancient coastal port site of Lattara in southern France provide the earliest biomolecular archaeological evidence for grape wine and viniculture from this country, which is crucial to the later history of wine in Europe and the rest of the world. The data support the hypothesis that export of wine by ship from Etruria in central Italy to southern Mediterranean France fueled an ever-growing market and interest in wine there, which, in turn, as evidenced by the winepress, led to transplantation of the Eurasian grapevine and the beginning of a Celtic industry in France. Herbal and pine resin additivesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America10147-52https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3690885biostudies-literatureBeginning of viniculture in France.PMC3690885Henkin JMRovira NMcGovern PELuley BPDavidson THall GRMirzoian ACallahan MPSmith KEfalseBeginning of viniculture in France.Chemical analyses of ancient organic compounds absorbed into the pottery fabrics of imported Etruscan amphoras (ca. 500-475 B.C.) and into a limestone pressing platform (ca. 425-400 B.C.) at the ancient coastal port site of Lattara in southern France provide the earliest biomolecular archaeological evidence for grape wine and viniculture from this country, which is crucial to the later history of wine in Europe and the rest of the world. The data support the hypothesis that export of wine by ship from Etruria in central Italy to southern Mediterranean France fueled an ever-growing market and interest in wine there, which, in turn, as evidenced by the winepress, led to transplantation of the Eurasian grapevine and the beginning of a Celtic industry in France. Herbal and pine resin additives2013-01-01T00:00:00Z2013 Jun2025-04-19T17:09:32.738Z2019-03-27T01:12:03ZS-EPMC36908852373393710.1073/pnas.1216126110