600-year-old pinot noir grape found in medieval French toilet

The seed reveals that people in France have been cultivating this immensely popular variety of grape since at least the 1400s, the scientists said in a new study. It is not possible to say whether the fruit was "eaten like table grapes or whether people made wine from it at the time", study co-author Laurent Bouby told AFP. But the research provides a link between modern France -- one of the world's largest wine-producing and -consuming countries -- and its distant wine-loving past. Another study co-author...