Промени в средствата за производство на вино в Югоизточна Европа
Changes in the Media for Production of Wine in South-Eastem Europe

Summary/Abstract: An attempt has been made to trace the stages of development of the instruments connected with wine-making, on the basis of ethnographic, archaeological and linguistic materials. Of the two known methods of wine-making -through pressing and through trampling — the author analyses the second method and elaborates it comparatively in several countries of South-Eastern Europe and the Caucasus: Armenia, Georgia, Romania and Bulgaria. Following the changes in the equipment for trampling on grapes from Antiquity and the Middle Ages down to our own day, he finds that the old, highly developed ancient viticultural culture has been destroyed. It was replaced by a marked production of wine without presses which is connected to a great extent with the wine-making traditions of the Iranian-Turkic peoples. It is stressed that, in contrast to that of Western Europe, whose appearance and development is determined by the Roman tradition, the East European viticultural culture has preserved the primitive technology and equipment and is connected through many elements with the traditions of the old Transcaucasian culture.

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