The first hard evidence of actual grapevine domestication occurs 8,000 to 6,000 years ago in what the geneticist José Vouillamoz calls “Grape’s Fertile Triangle” -an area that extended from the Taurus Mountains (eastern Turkey) to the northern Zagros Mountains (western Iran) to the Caucasus Mountains (Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan). Vouillamoz’s “Grape Fertile Triangle” is partially within what archeologists call the Fertile Crescent-the ancient cradle of agriculture where the so-called “founder cereals” -einkorn wheat and rye, and legumes like chickpeas and lentils-were first cultivated. Interestingly, the Fertile Crescent is also where Indo European languages began, suggesting that language spread along with the domestication of crops including grapes.