The United States, France and Germany may be the top three wine-drinking countries in the world, but Georgia can now claim to be the country where wine-making began. And, it turns out, humans have been making and enjoying the alcoholic drink for a lot longer than we had thought. Scientists this week announced the discovery of the oldest-known evidence for wine-making. Researchers found pieces of 8,000-year-old containers used to make wine. The remains were found at two sites about 50 kilometers south of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. The findings show that wine-making occurred earlier than previously known in the South Caucasus area. Before now, the oldest evidence had come from pottery from the Zagros Mountains in northwestern Iran, dating to 5400-5000 BC. The oldest of the newly discovered remains dated to about 5980 BC.