So, I need two lots of data to answer this question, at the global level.
Wine-making itself goes back a very long way, of course. It has been noted (The oldest vineyard in the world is 6,100 years old) that:
The Greeks had Dionysus - the ancient Greek god of wine, among other things - who was worshipped as early as 1,500 - 11,000 BCE and is referenced in the works of Homer and Aesop. Mentions of wine can be traced back to Georgia in 6,000 BCE, Iran in 5,000 BCE and Sicily in 4,000 BCE; and the Egyptians also tried their hand at winemaking with all kinds of grapes, as well as with figs, dates and pomegranates. The alcohol is even mentioned 231 times in biblical literature.
It was during a 2007 research expedition in Armenia... that a drinking bowl, grape seeds, desiccated vines, pottery sherds and fermentation jars were discovered and dated as 6,100 years old… This discovery is said to be the earliest example of wine production - with the grapes in question most likely the Vitis vinifera species, according to botanists.
However, there are no extant wineries this old. Indeed, the World Atlas tells us that The oldest wineries in the world are apparently as shown in the table above. According to this information, Germany has by far the oldest known winery (at 1,161 years old), with France also having one at c. 1,000 years old. Italy’s oldest seems to be 882 years old. By comparison, Spain’s is only 474 years old, with Switzerland right behind.
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