Tirê Hov: The Kurdish Wild Grape and the Mountain Where Wine Was Born Scientists who study the origin of wine have a name for the place where it began: the Grape’s Fertile Triangle. It is a vast upland region bounded by three mountain ranges: the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey, the northern Zagros Mountains of western Iran, and the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Within this triangle, the wild ancestor of every wine grape and every table grape in