According to the data, the earliest time to grow wine grapes in France was around the 4th century BC, and the earliest vines appeared in Marseille in the Rhone Valley in southern France. French wine has a long history. Archaeologists have verified that people began to make wine in the Neolithic Age 10000 years ago. It is generally believed that wine originated in ancient Persia in 6000 BC, when there were already grape cultivation and wine brewing.