Kurds Invented Wine???

I couldn't pass this up. It seems Kurdistan was where first wine was made!
From the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

A major step forward in our understanding of Neolithic winemaking came from the analysis of a yellowish residue inside a jar excavated by Mary M. Voigt at the site of Hajji Firuz Tepe in the northern Zagros Mountains of Iran.

Well, guess whose home are we talking about? The big bad Kurds! ;-) Read on:

The jar, with a volume of about 9 liters (2.5 gallons) was found together with five similar jars embedded in the earthen floor along one wall of a "kitchen" of a Neolithic mudbrick building, dated to ca. 5400-5000 B.C. The structure, consisting of a large living room that may have doubled as a bedroom, the "kitchen," and two storage rooms, might have accommodated an extended family. That the room in which the jars were found functioned as a kitchen was supported by the finding of numerous pottery vessels, which were probably used to prepare and cook foods, together with a fireplace.

You can read about this on Vintage Direct too. Let's hope the French won't be too upset!