Soave, Veneto Soave, Veneto Soave is a small "comune" of the Veneto region in the Province of Verona, northern Italy, with a population of roughly 6,800 people. Soave is located approximately east of Verona and is reachable by use of the A4 motorway exit Soave-San Bonifacio. Soave was a Roman center on the via Postumia that connected Aquileia to Genoa. There are different names about the origin of current name: according to one theory, it could derive from the Suebi (sometimes called "Soavi" in medieval Italian). The castle was cited for the first time in occasion of the Magyar invasions (934). In
Wine in China Xinjiang Autonomous Region have an ancient history of viticulture going back to around the 4th Century BC, when Greek settlers brought the vine and more advanced irrigation techniques. However new archeological evidence has shown this to be untrue, because China produced grape wine, rice wine, mead (honey wine) 9000 years ago (7000 BC). The area around Turfan was, and still is, particularly noted for its grape production, and production of grape wines is mentioned in the historical record as well; Marco Polo mentioned that "Carachoco" (the name he used for Turfan) produced fine grape wines. The modern wine industry is