In Azerbaijan the vine-growing and the winemaking are closely connected to the culture. Grape-growing, and particularly winemaking, experienced an adventure fraught with pitfalls to reach its current position. Favorable soil and climate conditions of the region have enabled the spreading of the viticulture for thousands of years.

Millennia ago, long before the caucasus region was formed into nation states, people living there were growing grapes.

The beginning of the Azerbaijani viticulture dates back to the Tertiary period.
A turning point in the history of viticulture de- velopment in Azerbaijan occurred in the 1950s, when new administrative units for viticulture and winemaking were created in Karabakh-Mil, Guba-Khachmaz and Lankaran-Jalilabad regions in the country. A turning point in the history of viticulture.