The viticulture in Egypt has already thousands of years an old tradition. This is occupied by the representation of the wine production in different Reliefen. Under the Stufenpyramide of Sakkara Pharao Djoser (around 2.800 v. Chr.) in the so-called Djoser pyramid already could a wine cellar and a magazine area be put on. In the grave of Tutanchamun (around 1350 v. Chr.) a wine jug was found. In the Roman time of Egypt large quantities wine were exported to Rome.

Today wine on approximately 57,000 hectares of surface is cultivated particularly for the production by board grapes/clusters. A cause is that consumption of alcohol is forbidden to the Muslims. Thus the annual produced quantity of wine amounts to only 27,000 Hektoliter in mainly put under state control The most important Rebsorte is Muscat d'Alexandrie. Without artificial irrigation no cultivation of wine would be possible in Egypt.

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