Legend has it the Persian emperor Jamsheed loved grapes so much he stored them in amphora during the winter so he could regrow them the next spring. Because he believed them to be harmful, he labeled the amphoras as containing poison. One winter a woman in his harem who wanted to commit suicide tried to do so by drinking the “poison.’  She didn’t die but her euphoria was so great it generated an industry which is still in force today – with some wines labeled Jamsheed. This is a great story but probably not true as the Sumerians, who preceded the Persians by thousands of years, had a god overlooking the “heavenly grape-vine.” She was Geshtinanna and is also the goddess of agriculture, fertility, and dream interpretation. According to Sumerian legend, her brother, Dumuzid, had been killed by demons of that era, the galla, and been spirited off to the Sumerian equivalent of the underworld, Kur. Geshtinanna agreed to take her brother’s place in Kur for six months out of every year.  That is why those months are devoid of fertility, ergo winter. To this day, wags and historians wonder if the labeling of fermenting grapes was because of the belief they were poisoned or because the emperor wanted to dissuade anyone from drinking his best wine. 

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