Ep. 1331 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 10 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0
Episode 1331

Ep. 1331 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 10 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

April 1, 2023
27,73263889
Marco Gandini
Italian Wine
wine
agriculture
italy
genetics
plants

Episode Summary

Content Analysis Key Themes and Main Ideas 1. The significance of ""Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0"" as a comprehensive resource for Italian wine education and research. 2. The critical role of genetic research and pedigree reconstruction in understanding the origins, evolution, and biodiversity of Italian grape varieties. 3. Sardinia as a historical center for grape domestication and a rich source of unique native grape varieties. 4. The historical migration patterns and genetic contributions of grape varieties across the Italian peninsula and wider Europe. 5. The interdisciplinary nature of viticultural history, requiring collaboration between scientists, historians, and anthropologists. 6. The marketing and communication potential of genetic insights for showcasing the unique terroirs and heritage of Italian wine. Summary The text introduces ""Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0,"" a recently published book by Mamma Jumbo Shrimp, highlighting its updated content, expert reviews, and focus on benchmark producers. A significant portion of the excerpt delves into the importance of grapevine genetics, particularly referencing insights from Professor Attilio Scienza. It identifies Sardinia as a crucial ""secondary center of domestication"" in the Western Mediterranean, citing its abundance of wild vines and diverse cultivated germplasm, and discussing specific Sardinian varieties and their genetic ties to other regions. The text emphasizes that despite the difficulty of communicating scientific discoveries in wine, genetics offers compelling narratives that link grape varieties to ancient civilizations and historical migrations. It details genetic contributions to various parts of Italy from regions like the Southern Balkans and Central Europe, and vice versa. The excerpt also explains concepts like dioecy and heterozygosity in ancient grapevines, noting that spontaneous crossing was a primary method for new variety emergence. Finally, it concludes by underscoring the immense value of pedigree reconstruction for technological advancements, viticultural improvements, and enhancing wine communication, storytelling, and marketing, positioning it as a unique strength of Italian wine's deep connection to its land. Takeaways * ""Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0"" is a definitive guide incorporating modern genetic research on Italian grapevines. * Grapevine genetics provides profound insights into the historical origins, migrations, and biodiversity of wine varieties. * Sardinia served as an important historical hub for grape domestication and boasts a rich array of unique indigenous varieties. * The genetic makeup of Italian grapevines reflects centuries of complex migrations and cross-pollinations across Europe. * Understanding grape pedigrees requires an interdisciplinary approach, combining science with history, archaeology, and anthropology. * Genetic research offers compelling narratives that enhance wine communication, storytelling, and the marketing of Italian wine's deep-rooted heritage. * Ancient winemakers played a role in shaping grape diversity through observations and facilitating spontaneous crossings, particularly with female-flowered varieties. Notable Quotes * ""It is never easy for scientific discoveries to fit into wine communication, even though these topics offer fascinating narratives of territory and wine."

About This Episode

The Italian wine industry has been around for generations, with the selection and genetic aspect of wines being important. The historical migration of grape varieties and the importance of genetic factors in the generation of new varieties have been linked to factors like poor planted conditions and the use of fertilization. The transcript also touches on the cultural and genetic bases of the peninsula and the historical migration of wines, with insight into the cultural and genetic bases being key drivers of success in the global market.

Transcript

By now, you've all heard of Italian wine Unplugged two point o. The latest book published by Mamma jumbo shrimp. It's more than just another wine book. Fully updated second edition was inspired by students of the Vin Italy International Academy and painstakingly reviewed and revised by an expert panel of certified Italian wine ambassadors from across the globe. The book also includes an addition by professor Atilio Shenza. Italy's leading vine geneticist. The benchmark producers feature is a particularly important aspect of this revised edition. The selection makes it easier for our readers to get their hands on a bottle of wine that truly represents a particular grape or region to pick up a copy, just head to Amazon dot com, or visit us at mama jumbo shrimp dot com. For all the super wine yeeks out there, we have a special new series dedicated to you. We are reading excerpts from our new addition of Italian wine unplugged two point o. Wine lovers tune in for your weekly fix only on Italian wine podcast. 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. Sardinia. One of the secondary center of domestication in the Western Mediterranean was most likely the island of Sardinia. The high presence of wild grape vines whose grapes are sometimes used to make wine, and the richness of cultivated germplasm that includes hundreds of cultivars justifies the claim. In the study of the origins of Kanonau, Kanasse, a close can ship with some varieties from Armenia and Georgia has emerged. While Bovale Piccolo has a local origin. Cimidano and are two well known sardinian varieties that are not grown outside the island. The genetic relationship between them is not surprising. Given their morphological similarity. Although, inexplicable, molecular data demonstrates role played by Semidano in the emergence of Bianqueta Marquijana and Ocunero. To mark a varieties, as well as the A variety shared by the neighboring regions of Tuscany, lazio, and umbria, testifying to its presence in central Italy in ancient times. In Sardinia, Evan, one of the major Iberian founding grape varieties, appeared as the parent of local varieties, Monica, Ned Dumanu, and Turbato. Vernacha Diristano is Spergola, which was introduced to Sardinia from Amelia probably during medieval times. Conclusion. It is never easy for scientific discoveries to fit into wine communication, even though these topics offer fascinating narratives of territory and wine. However, there is one research topic that overcomes these difficulties. And that is the study of genetics in relation to the genealogy of grape varieties. This should not come as a surprise as it forms part of our need to understand the history and origins of the species, and it links to ancient civilizations and great historical migrations. This narrative using the findings of genetics, the DNA mistake, offers continuing avenues of knowledge for the refinement of our own understanding. According to recent research, Sanjay has been the parent, then offspring, and the parent again This is not due to uncertainty on the part of the scientists, but because the path of science, the process necessary to achieve true knowledge of nature, is like that. Research on the parentage of grape varieties tells us much more than just great biological biodiversity. It also highlights the need for a much broader cultural approach to understanding these concepts. Biotechnologists or emperors agronomists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists must work together to reconstruct the routes, migration flows, and contamination of grape varieties that we might we now consider native. But which in more recent times have traveled with humans. In order to reconstruct the history of our vines and have data to process, it is necessary that the hypothetical parents and ancestors, even if almost extinct must be collected for analysis in collections of Viticulture germplasm. The management of which is often disregarded by institutions because of the costs involved. Knowledge of the past and what our ancestors did transporting, crossing, and selecting the grape varieties we know today, and thus laying the foundation for modern agriculture should make us think about the future of creating new varieties. The results of this research have allowed us to outline the main lines of the culture movement affecting the Italian peninsula. An important genetic contribution arrives in southern Italy from the southern Balkan area, mailing Greece. Through the introduction of founders such as Viesparola and Akladi, pergolese from Tivoli, to which are added Moscato Bianco and Zhibbo, Moscato, and from the Isso Baucans came Bombino Bianco. Italian wine podcast, part of the momo jumbo shrimp family. In the opposite direction, from Italy to the Iberian Peninsula, is the migration followed by local hybridization of Priebriánk Valdostano, and also as Augusta from Northern Italy to Central Spain. From Central Europe to Northern Italy, the genetic contribution of Hoenish Vice Gueblanc, in the formation of Ribolajjala and Skaba Rosar. Gueblanc, one of the main ancestors of French grape varieties has long been present in many places in order in Italy under various synonyms. Lizzire, Praviral, and Lisora, and contributed to the formation of grape varieties still grown in Italy such as Ebola. Diosha's ness and subsequent cross fertilization in white grapevines have produced a high level of at the rosigosity, the condition of having two different alleys at a locus and essential condition of survival from these pieces. This had the Resigosity has also remained very high due to the models of a gaming multiplication And as the basis of the high genetic variability that in grapevines, contrary to other spaces subject to decline, has increased over time due to intense varietal circulation that has marked their genetic structure. A common characteristic of many European founder vines, including Marufo, Heben, Corne Alba, Malvasiromatica Di Parma, and Termarina, is that they have female flowers and are sometimes stable grapes. This is one of the reasons why these varieties fill the role of mother binds. Diocea is a phenotypic trait that characterizes the oldest binds for which domestication from the wild state that prepares airmaphroditism has not led to this result. In addition, the Progyny of a female plant derived only from crossing is less prone to inbreeding depression or reduced biological fitness. It can also be surmised that in creating new vines, ancient winemakers cultivated female varieties because of the ease that they had of crossing them without having to deprive them of male gametes and because they were always close to home and therefore easy to observe. Badegree Research has shown that spontaneous crossing has been the main strategy for the emergence of new varieties. While very few cultivars derived from self pollination, highlighting the fact that vine fertilization is not only clastogamous, but can also occur through anemophilus and entomophilus pollination. Pedigree reconstruction together with the identification of the main ancestors of traditional Italian cultivars and closely related varieties is also considered of great value for the purpose of their technological and viticulture announcements. Indeed, this information has a particular appeal for wide communication for storytelling and for exploring the relationship with Terror. From a marketing point of view, this is a particular strength of Italian wine, which offers the global market a vast range of unique and inevitable products that are deeply rooted in the land. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, HimalIFM, 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. Chichi.