That did not stop its legend spreading. Noah`s vineyard was supposedly near Mount Ararat, in what is now north-east Turkey. [So now it isn`t legend," says Dr Margaryan.
It may seem odd that grapes were domesticated twice, but simultaneous invention is hardly unheard of in the history of technology.
Alternatively, perhaps, as news flowed between the Caucasus and the Levant, one budding innovator may have pinched another`s brainwave.
It may even have been inadvertent. Perhaps they simply heard it through the grapevine.