Ep. 633 VIA Seminar Day 1 Pt. 4 (EN/ITA) | Everybody Needs A Bit Of Scienza

Welcome to another installment of everybody needs a bit of Shenza. Class is in session. Follow the professor, in his advanced wine seminars during the Venetal International Ambassador Certification course flagship edition in verona. Seminers were on the ten must known Italian soils, Evinid el Foco, Evinid elmare, and Evinid el gacho. Just in fire, water, and ice. Very game of Thrones, but way more nerdy and of course, starring our very own superhero Professor Chienza. Oh, and for all those English speakers only in the house, Chienza's sidekick Francesco Marcio was there to back him up all the way, translating all the material on the spot. Chinchin wine nerds. Before the show, here's the shout out to our new sponsor, Ferrowind. Ferrowind has been the largest wine shop in Italy since nineteen twenty. They have generously supplied us with our new t shirt. Would you like one? Just two fifty euros, and it's all yours. Plus, we'll throw in our new book jumbo shrimp guide to international grape varieties in Italy. For more info go to Italian wine podcast dot com and click donate or check out Italian wine broadcast on Instagram. The caricante, caricante, Elvitino. So the soil on etsna, are not the difference. There are, quite homogeneous soil. Of course, some are more recent, some are older, but what are the key factors on Hector is altitude and exposure. We have, on the northern part of on ethanol, the green part is where the Viticulture is more, present, while the southern part is, where we have less, with the culture. Professor, just say, it's very, very important to bear in mind these two, altitude and exposure. That's make the difference when we talk about Et unwinds. Best should should always. Yeah. Yes. From here, we can see, the the the the age of the soil. So the, the the the purple, the bioeth one are, the old lavas, and the more recent are the green ones. The greens are more, concentrated in the southern part of Eta, and, it was just saying that, here, also the landscape is different. You have, many different craters for the ethanol. In total, on ethanol, we have more than three hundred craters. So these are the area where you notice, difference on the landscape when you go to Etna. And then No. That's in pre comprehensive. Yes. So this is a map, that's showing us the areas of production based on ripeness. Here you have, a free different color, and there is a precocious area, middle area, and a tardive area. It's it's interesting to notice that the precocious areas is on the northern part of Etna. So, the, The target area is the southern part. Most of the people tend to think the opposite, but actually it's not. It's, on the normal part where the multicultural is more, present is the the precocious area. And then you have this, middle area in, in red. You can notice that they're all go around the volcano. And, this is another, important map to see when we talk about the exposure and altitude on it. Our impacts on Viticulture. Very important. You have all the details in, in here regarding the rain and the the the the temperature It's a very nice slide, but I think you can, you know, have a look later on detail on on this. I just want to move to the next one and give us a room to the to the question. Is So the the the particularly, They're Yeah. So so professor talk about, what we have actually on this slide and what is important for soil to, have, quality to to to to deliver a quality wine, especially on extra, with the altitude, it's very important the soul has been that has to be aerated, the the the the ground under my environment encourage the rest of the environment, no water, stagnation, stagnation, good thermal conduction, and then he's explaining about and, that, is this type of soil that act like a sponge to receive the water for all summer. So basically, when it's raining, it act like a sponge, and then release the rain in step by step when they start to be, hotter. Very mind then on ethanol, the rainfall is double than sicily. The average rain on ethanol. So it's raining much more than sicily, as, as we know. But these are low furnace soil, it's really, really important when did you, for a quality, ethanol wines. Sequel chihuahua. From this picture, we can see there are no layers. So the the the recent soil, they have no layers, as we saw some picture before. And, professor Judd was talking about the importance, of terwar, and what's happened in the past especially in the the past century was aware that we were we were using a very, big flag. And all the soil were going upside down, and the result was a very fertile soil. So it's a very good soil for for, you know, for for agriculture. But we we destroy the soil in that way because if you do that, then, the concept of terrar, it will miss will miss it the soil because you you mix everything together. What they're doing now is try to preserve the soil in in this way, you can keep identity on, on the different soil and different parts of, of Italy, especially. Yes. These two pictures that just show two different soil on Etra. The first one they are both pyroclastic soil, and that's they are basically how they, came from the wood out, they're opted from the volcano. And they have no time to sediment. So there are the original, material from the volcano. This is more sandy, soil, And this one is more a course, coarse soil, but both are a pyroclastic soil. This is actually more more recent because it didn't break down to become sandy yet. This is in a study of according to altitude and exposure of the IT react on on the aromas. So this is very different from the other one that we saw on Garganaga. Here, we can actually notice a big difference between, on the grapevine be an aromas, on, it depends on the exposure or which slope is it, or which altitude. It's the diagram are very different from one to each other. Yeah. This was the end of, the wind of fire. 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, production, and publication costs. Until next time.