label from Iran

May 21, 2004 4 Replies

Hello



I'm wine label collector and I have a label from Iran, I'm not able to identify. May be it is (grape?) juice (sultane is a dry grape isn't it?), because they don't drink wine in Iran, may be it is so old that it is from wine but it doesn't seem so old to me Who is able to help me I've put it on my site:



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thanks



Jenny


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because they

I really don't know but I found this text :

" Drinking has formed part of our culture almost since time began. In the mountainous area between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, where Noah's Ark landed on the mountains of Ararat, the vine has been native for thousands of years"

So that Ararat on the label reflects to this.....;-))

Regards,

Robèrt

Hi Robèrt

Thanks for answering but I think that in that periode they had no labels and no telephone aswell ;-)

But may be they still have grapes on the Ararat and this is a label from grape juice

jenny

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I crossposted your posting to and to where you might get more specific answers from.

M.

Hello Michael

Thanks for helping me but a kind lady from the french ng about collecting told me that this a label from wodka from the period of the Shah so before

1979 when the Ayatollah came in Iran

greetings

Jenny

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