1.   But Georgians, who experts say were the first people to cultivate grapes, make excessive drinking an art form.

2.   The French take precedence, if only because they have been cultivating the grapes longer than anyone else.

3.   They cultivate grapes for those wines elsewhere.

4.   They may have cultivated grapes, but it is more likely they harvested wild grapes, which were plentiful in the region.