After the Flood, what did Noah plant in Genesis 9:20?

After the Flood, Genesis 9:20 says Noah planted a vineyard. The verse introduces a short episode in which Noah drinks wine made from the vineyard and becomes drunk.

The vineyard detail occurs after the covenant narrative and after Noah’s family has begun life on the renewed earth. It is one of the story’s few agricultural details and shows Noah returning to cultivation after the catastrophe.

Readers sometimes remember the passage as Noah planting grapes, but the text specifically describes him as a “man of the soil” who planted a vineyard. The distinction matters: a vineyard is a cultivated area for grapevines, while the later wine is a product made from its grapes. The narrative then shifts to an incident involving Noah’s sons, rather than continuing with Ark construction or travel.