Soleas et al.,2002 in the journal “A comparison of the anticarcinogenic properties of four red wine polyphenols”. Alcoholic beverages were discovered by man in many areas on earth. Wine has an unequivocally recorded history stretching back nearly 6,000 years, with the earliest chemical evidence been a pottery jar recovered from a square mud-brick building at the site of Hajji Firutz, Tepe, Iran,. Wine was identified by the presence of the calcium salt of tartaric acid, which occurs in large amounts