From Tutankhamen’s Tomb To Source Perrier

As you might expect after 3,000 years, the wine jars given to the pharaoh as gifts for the after life contained only residues. Interestingly, each of the wine jars were labelled with what appear to be a year, style, vineyard, place of origin and winemaker. A typical example read, ‘Year 5. Sweet wine of the Estate of Aton of the Western River. Chief vintner Nakht’.

The problem with this method of labelling wine is that the names we give to wines blur the lines between the name of the grape variety, the method of wine making and the geographical origin. Our natural inclination before brands were commonly used was to name products after their place of origin. For example, angora wool (Ankara, Turkey),