Ep. 894 Science & Its Prejudices Seminar Day 1 Part 2 | Everybody Needs A Bit Of Scienza

Welcome to the Italian wine podcast. This episode is brought to you by Vinitally international wine and spirits exhibition. The fifty fourth edition of Vinitally was held from ten to the thirteenth of April. If you missed it, don't worry. Go to Vineethly plus dot com for on demand recordings of all the sessions from the exhibition. And remember to save the date, the next edition of Vineethly will be held from the second to the fifth of April two thousand and twenty three. Today, on the Italian wine podcast, we welcome you to the special seminar led by professore Atilio Shenza entitled Science and its prejudices. What are the consequences for Viticulture, which took place during Vinitally twenty twenty two held in Italian and translated into English by Richard Huff. Tuning each week to be a part of this special event. And remember, for more great chance of related content, check out our sister channel, mama jumbo shrimp on YouTube. Contract to the digital body answer. I'm not inquiring in Germany, okay, in you know, the part of this notion of superior and inferior races took place in the the nineteenth century here on the on the slide, you can you can see at an illustration of the, Italian Fortnately magazine, Latifreza de la Ratza, the the defense of race. And this was the main anti Semitic tool for the the fascist regime, both in both in Italy and Germany. And design grew to express the view that there was a scientific doctrine that justified racial policies. So designed to to promote this doctrine, in the eyes of the Italian public. The important. This is a quotation from Luca Cavalli's fortsa. Race exists not in our genes, but in our heads. And this idea, this, this was Lucas fortsa challenging the the concept of race and suggesting that although race has a certain culture of significance, it has no basis in biological science. And and then just to summarize what what the professor explained about this moment of significant and important, change, climatic change, and environmental change. And so we have to use all the resources In fact, all the the genetic resources that we have at our disposal to and this the discrimination between American and European species as if you like a a barrier really that we we have to overcome in order to to tackle these changes climatic and environmental that are in front of us. Specific art or a person. They're not gonna be this really filler. To distinguish between the American and the the European species that are the these these notable presence of to to sugars which in the American species which which, create this notable foxy flavor in the American species. I prefer pinonero pinonero pinonero acrestica battery in fruit, the fiora. So just to explore the technical evolutionary development that created a difference in the characteristics of the European and American species, even though they share a common background and the the multiplication of this or the the augmentation of this foxy characteristic really was caused by an America by the by the rodents who were attracted by the the foxy smell and characteristics of the the fruit, which then led to the to the multiplication of that that species. Whereas in Europe, the the opposite was true the the species was disseminated really by by birds and they were attracted to different different characteristics by the shape, color, and and sugars of the fruit. So in Italy and Germany, they they acted to restrict or prevent even the the use of American species to to produce wine for for ideological reasons whereas at that time there was also the the emergence of these direct producer or or French hybrids. I'm used for a group of vines that that were bred to combine pest and disease resistance of American vines, but the returning to the to the Italian and German example, they they created a false science really to justify this exclusion of the American species. The Yes. So just starting at the slide, currently on the screen, and the question on the slide is where is the purity of Sanjuvezi. So, again, just emphasizing that that this idea of purity is in fact a myth and, just returning to the the the previous slide. Again, the the this idea of purity of species that that was an ideology of of fascism and and to the end and Germany, there's really one that wasn't underpinned by genuine science. Related. From some of the forensic ideology. So, yes, the question when we when we look first at these four, pictures which are, which are the resistant grips. And you can see that the these are these are hybrids on the second screen, you can see the hybrids below. And in fact, there there are no morphological or or or physical differences in fact between the the hybrids and the non hybrids. The the could be the crystal, a, like, around the force, the the crucial liquidity, resistivity. So this diagram shows that whenever the eighth generation of of hybrids and when when you take the example of a fungal or a or a parasite that arrive, resistant variety, the difference is that the, the resistant variety responds immediately whereas when it arrives at a non resistant speed it it takes longer. So this, three point one five percent of the, the three point one five percent contribution of the American species is really a resistance accelerator. Thanks for listening to this episode of the Italian wine podcast, brought to you by Vinitally International Wine and Spirits exhibition, the biggest drinks trade fair in the world. Save the date. 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