The first cocktail arose in Mesopotamia 5,000 years ago

A particular archaic blend of wine, beer, apple juice and honey. This is the composition of a sort of Grog, as Patrick McGregor says, an archaic drink that has been recently market in USA and named 'Midas Touch'. McGovern, professor at the Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, studied the evolution of viticulture in the East and West, finding some earthenware along the Tigris river showing traces of tartaric acid - an element which is characteristic of the grape fermentation - honey, apple juice and brew barley, a sort of beer ante litteram. It is noteworthy that probably this grog was drunk also by Etrurians, as it can be infer by analyzing some pottery from South Tuscany (Italy). As a matter of fact, it is assumed that the domestication of vine in Etruria was previous than the diffusion on Greek wine in the South coastlines.