Journey in search of roots of winemaking

As children we learn to read starting with ABCs, yet most wine lovers inadvertently skip over the beginning history of the drink they love. France and Italy are often spoken of as the grand old centers of great winemaking, but that's four or five thousand years off the mark.

For the Love of Wine: My Odyssey Through the World's Most Ancient Wine Culture has been written by Alice Feiring and published by Potomac Books.

New York City writer and natural wine advocate Feiring takes readers on her passionate journey to explore the republic of Georgia in the Caucasus Mountains, the region where many experts believe winemaking originated roughly 8,000 years ago, long before Western Europe.