Ep. 1532 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 31 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

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If you want to own a copy of this new must read Italian wine textbook, just go to amazon dot com or visit us at mama jumbo shrimp. Dot com. Apulia. Historical background. There isn't a part of Apulia without an olive tree or a vine. The very symbols of this ancient and historical land. Each civilization that has passed through this region has left indelible traces of their passage, not only architecturally and monumentally, but also in terms of agriculture and wine production. In order to understand Apulia, one must first know the importance of the past and the cultural contribution of those mycen merchants from the aegean. As early as the second millennium VC, they exploded the vast coastlines and endless planes to construct a flourishing and profitable agriculture which they later entrusted to the local populations devoting themselves exclusively to the commercial aspects of their maritime importance. The presence of these peoples did not, however, limit the significant colonization of the region by the Greeks who at first considered Apulia only a passageway to Compania. At ischia, they founded the first emporium on the Iranian Sea. They helped turn the region into an expanse of olive groves and vineyards, building an Empallographic identity that was maintained for centuries and identity unique among all Italian regions. In seven hundred six BC to swell the ranks of the Greek population in Apulia, some rebels driven out of Sparta, also arrived and founded the city of Taras or Taranto. Thanks to its strategic position, the city soon became the undisputed power in the region leading the way in industry, textiles, and agriculture, and surpassing other centers such as Cibaris. Other cities slowly emerged with a strong agricultural imprint, such as ARpi near present day Foggia, Nepal Apuliet, present day Polignano, Southeast Dolberry, and Orra. Present day audio in the Brindsey area. These centers excelled not only in serial cultivation, the main activity practice, but also in Viticulture, improving seller operations and promoting wine knowledge. From Greece, naturally, also came new vines and production techniques, such as the alberlo, which was considered new compared to those used previously, and which was inspired by the Caucasian model with creeping vines as the athenian historian Zenifin described then in the fourth century BC. The southern part of Opulia thus became part of manja Greta and numerous artistic and architectural treasures from that period still exist today in an area of Leche, known as Greta Salentina, where the local dialect is also influenced by ancient Greek. With the arrival of the Romans after the second punic war in the second century BC, the agrarian production model went into crisis, and the foundations were laid for the latter fundium, which was to characterize this land for many centuries. The territory was subsequently restructured according to the Mediterranean policy of the empire, which considered Apulia, not only an important agricultural area, but a strategic region of vital communication routes towards the southeastern part of the empire. The area was equipped with an efficient road network. With the via appia linking Rome with Brindisi and via Triana starting from Benavento and linking Troya canosa, Bari and Brindisi. It was along these roads that the wine trade prospered. So much so that pliny in his listing of the Greek grape varieties mentions the Malvasianera of Brindisi and Leche. Are you enjoying this podcast? Don't forget to visit our YouTube channel, mama jumbo shrimp for fascinating videos covering Stevie Kim and her travels across Italy and beyond. Meeting winemakers, eating local foods, and taking in the scenery. Now, back to the show. Negromaro and Uva Detroita. Maduria, Missania, Aletsium, and Saba were also recognized as areas with a great wine vacation. In the middle ages, Frederick the second of Swabia, also expanded wine production by bringing thousands of plants from Campania to the Upper Muurje where he built his octagonal manor house known as Castel Monte. At the Grana Edwina, an important local wine fair reestablished by Charle Avanger, Verdica wines were even marketed. Throughout the Renaissance, Aapoleon wines began to arrive all over Italy and even in two friends. At Lorenzo de medici's table, for example, wine from Campis Argentina was consumed. In fifteen sixty nine, Andrea Baccio recounts in his story of the Vigny D'italia that the vineyards of Leche, Brindisi, and Bari yielded wines of excellent quality, While in sixteen twenty nine, Prosperorendella from Monopoly lists Montonico, Brindesino, Gardian, Tarantino, and Oostoony, among the wines of Apulia. In eighteen seventy two, the first agricultural Institute with an annexed analogical facility was established. Ten years later, the experimental wine cellar was established in Barletta. When the phylloxera outbreak first truck, markets throughout Italy and France turned to Apulia to meet local demand for wine, but soon it too was hit by the scourge of phylloxera. Which cause serious damage to the local Vida culture. Fortunately, Apulia had in the meantime attracted the interest of foreign entrepreneurs, including the French who arrived in the Brindisi area, but also Germans and oceans. Casagansha was the first to have the intuition to use Napoleon white wines for the production of vermouth, giving way to the other Piedmontese entrepreneurs, hosa the potential of this fertile territory. Over time, the Alberlo Vine was replaced with the more productive Tendone while the presence of autochtines, varieties such as Bombino Verdicca, Uva Ditroya, Negramaro, Bianco Deliano. Malvazianera increased. Other oaxinous varieties such as chardonnay, Trebiano, Montepucciano, San Giovanni, and carbonet, were introduced, which benefited Napoleon Viticulture. Since the end of the nineteen nineties, there has been a significant transformation in the sector, which is leading regional wine production to a real renaissance. Gymaphology, Apulia is a long strip of land bordering Melissa to the northwest, Campania and Vasiliicata, to the west, while it's eight hundred kilometers of coastline are washed by the ionian sea to the south and to the adriatic sea to the north and east. The territory is varied and diverse from north to south. Being flat for more than fifty percent, Hilly for forty five percent and maintenance for only five percent, making it the least spontaneous region in Italy. The highest peak in the area which do not exceed nine hundred meters above sea level are found in the Monte downey in the province of Focha, a pre eponine belt that connects with Maurizae and Campania. Here, the climate has cool summers and rather harsh winters, while the rest of a full year territory has a Mediterranean climate with hot summers, little rain, and plenty of sunshine. Cupulia can be subdivided into different zones based on the physiographic and hydrogeological features that characterize it. The main ones are gargano, tagulier, Mourge. This divided into high and low, Salinto, and the Gulf of Taranto. The region is scarcely deformed from a geological point of view and is made up of eighty percent Minsonzoic limestone, and cretaceous limestone. It has caustic characteristics, especially in the with a considerable presence of underground conduits and caves. A certain, quote, car stification caused by the dissolution of carbonate rocks by surface and underground water and an absence of rivers. In fact, bore holes must sometimes reach a depth of over eight hundred meters for a source of water to be found. The term Muja derives from Muodex a sharp rock, formerly of limestone. The Mugee plateau crosses the provinces of Bari, Brindisi, and Taranto. As a whole, it is delimited by two important tectonic discontinuities one to the northwest towards the, the other to the southwest. An enormous, made up of flat plateaus, descends both northwestwards and southeastwards. Reaching all the way down to Salentor region, where the altimetry is lower, and the rocks are composed by sub outcropping white limestone, covered by a few centimeters of alluvial soil routing color produced by decalcification that makes the soil sub acidic. There are no alluvial deposits in this area due to the absence of glaciers and no volcanoes. As we have seen, Viticulture has been practiced in Apollo since ancient times and extends over almost the entire territory. Traditional bush train cultivation methods still coexist alongside moderate espelier, or Marquisystems. Along the ionian seletine coast near Taranto lies the cultivation area of the Primitivo vine. Which rests on relatively recent flat land of clay sandy composition on a cokerous substratum. Primmitivo, whose name derives from its early ripening, is one of the most widely cultivated vines in Ophelia, and is grown with a typical Apodium sampling consisting of three to four spurs, though ispallier training systems are becoming more widespread, allowing for greater mechanization. In Salento, an area characterized by a mesasonic platform and arid red soils with a calcareous substratum, we find the two areas of leverano doc and cupertino doc, where Malazianera and negromaro are grown. The latter being an indigenous vine par excellence, of the leche and Brindesie areas, climbing from the Mortge bus to the High Mortge near the municipalities of Alberto and Joya del Colle, we find the Locorotondo DOC appolation. Which offers vines such as Verdeca, Bianco de Elisano, and other indigenous varieties grown on soils of rocky limestone substrates that help the roots of the vines to maintain freshness and humidity. Moving on, one arrives in the Castel de Munte area, which extends over carcharrier substrate and sandy soils on which, Bombino Bianco, Bombino Nero, and Uva Ditroia are cultivated. Not far away on the lower western side of the great fault line that delimits the Morte plateau. Is Gravina Dipulia, DOC. A denomination assigned to one of the region's oldest wine growing areas. The area of Gravina is embedded in the valley of the marine coastal deposits called coloranite de Gravina, on which Greco Ditufo and Malvasia Bianca are grown. Either a spellier or carton trains. The largest production of white grape varieties, on the other hand, is located on predominantly clay soils in the San Severeaux DOC area in the far north of the region, in the municipality of the same name located between the Epanines, the Tavolere plain, and at the foot of the limestone Gargano massive. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud Apple Podcasts spotify, email ifm, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through Italian wine podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, and publication costs. Until next time.