Ep. 1394 Marco Gandini Narrates Part 17 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

Hey, guys. Check out Italian wine unplugged two point o, brought to you by Mamma jumbo shrimp, a fully updated second edition, reviewed and revised by an expert panel of certified Italian wine ambassadors from across the globe. The book also includes an edition by professoria Tinioshenza. Italy's leading vine geneticist. To pick up a copy today, just head to Amazon dot com or visit us at mama jumbo shrimp dot com. For all the super wine geeks 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. Legura. Historical background. Legura has always been a land of innovation and trade. It is a region that the ancient Greek historian diedaurus cicholas describes in the first century BC neither olive trees nor vines, but forests. This land, which the god's love, is inaccessible to Sarah's, the goddess of green crops, and bacchus the god of wine. In pre Roman times, liguria was not as we know it today. In fact, the Lagurians occupied a much larger area including much of the northwestern Italy, Northern Tuscany, and the north eastern corner of the Iberian Peninsula. Derivel of the Romans and the subsequent subjugation of the Lagorians changed the region's social economic system and brought investments to the primitive forms of the cultivation that in practice. Emperor aurelian, establish a forty five settlement in the region and encourage the planning of new vineyards to supply Rome. Despite these efforts, Viticulture as well as olive growing struggled to take hold. As a morphology of the land was by no means conductive to agricultural development. In fact, it was not only centuries later in the middle ages that a widespread viticultural presence was established from Las Petcino to Savona. When Genoa became a maritime republic, the wines of coronata, the costa Diiparolo, the Portuguese and Besiano valleys gained increasing renown. It was a period when the most trading wines were Vernache, which took its name from the port of Vernaza, a municipality in cinque terre, which soon became a true symbol of Genui's Viticulture, just as Malvasir wines were from Venice. The importance of the wine trade between the liguria Riviera and the cities of Nice and Rome is documented in the maritime and trading records of the Republic of Genoa. While other documents from the seventeenth century confirmed supplies of wines to the two keys of Milan and Savoy. The Spanish writer Miguel de cervantes, in his sixteen thirteen Novela El lissenciano Virdreira, the lawyer of Glass commented on the greatness of the cinquavinia, the name of which, the vineyards of the cinquetera were known. Evidence of the growing popularity of the region's wine, also comes from the writings of the young aristocrats, intellectuals, and poets of the grand tour as they explore Italy's historical, architectural, and cultural treasures. Despite its renowned status, Ligurian Villiculture soon slipped into a long period of crisis in which its wine was destined for local or self conception. Among the factors that contributed to its decline were fierce competition from English and Dutch traders in the Mediterranean. The cheapness of wine production in neighboring regions, such as the Altrepopaveza area and Piedmont, which are introduced more competitively priced wines to the market. And the arrival of few decades later of the Skorja philosopher. To all this, must be added a lack of stability in the cultivation techniques of the Lagorians who were often inclined to tinker with tings, even if they were going well. The Viticulture plaque crisis continues until the nineteen eighties, and was not only reversed when a group of producers decide to review their production schemes, focus on quality, and reshape the analogical tradition of the territory. This reforms have led to a resurgence of analogical excellence that bodes well for the future. Geomorphology. Liguria is a thin strip of land and one of the smallest regions in Italy. Together with Maurizze and Alservelli, squeeze as it is between the Alps, the Epanines, and the laguardanine. Like the Roman god Janus, from whom the name genoa is thought to derive, Legura is set to be two faced with one side that looks to the scene and the other that looks to the mountains. 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 food, and taking in the scenery. Now back to the show. The region forms an arc around two hundred and seventy kilometers in length stretching from southern France to Tuscany. Geologically, it is also divided into two parts, the rivera to the west, and the Riviera Delavante to the east. The former belongs to the maintenance chain of the Alps, except for the albenga plane where it enters the fleece zone towards the sea. Consisting of Iraqi's substratum with light colored, partly called Carreas stratum. The Riviera Delvante is linked to the Epanines and isrologically the younger of the two. Regarding the morphology of the land, areas suitable for agriculture are extremely limited. That's why the land was restructured with terracing and dry stone walls overlooking the sea. Here, Viticulture is not only heroic, but also an engineering gamble. It is clear, however, that in a region such as this, production will never satisfy the larger markets. And instead, remains destined for self conception, and meeting the needs of local holiday resorts. While space is at a premium, the climate is extraordinarily advantageous with temperatures averaging a summer high of twenty seven degrees and a winter low of seven or eight degrees. Protection from the north cold winds is offered by the mountains and an average annual precipitation of around fifteen hundred millimeters complete the generally favorable picture. On the Riviera diponente, where the pressure of the mountains is less impending, Viticulture has also been able to develop inland in the areas of Venty Media. Valle Crozia, and Abinga. Where the soils are rich in white soils, sandstones, and limestones, even at altitudes of nine hundred meters above sea level. These are the areas of the Rosizee Vine in the valley of the Nelbius stream is of ventimiglia. The climate in the Ponente contributes significantly to the growth of the Vine, which takes place on soils that are well drained and sandy. Given the wines characteristics of freshness and stability, Mediterranean flavors, hints of the sea and good acidity, intense and lively colors fine, but intense and predominantly fruity aromas. Along the Riviera de Lavante. The main wine growing areas are those of Tigulio, Levanto, and cinque terre. Which extends from Punta Misco to Punta di Montanero and includes five small villages perched on the coastline. This is an area characterized by terrace cultivation that rises to a maximum of six hundred meters above sea level, with vines that have an ease through the West exposure, trained in the low pergola system, and managed either by means of walkways that climb to the top of the hills or by funiculars or monorails they'll allow the grades to be transporter when there are particularly steep slopes. These are the areas with accentuated r graphic relief and an alternation of basins and crigs. In the monterosa area, the vine placed on compact limestone clearly salacious soils yields fruit that tends to produce higher alcohol wines than in nearby which has more friable rocks and loser lighter soils originating from the disintegration of skists and metamorphic origin with an acidic pH. On the border with Tuscany, we find a colored loonet located on the foot of the APuan Alps and interregional area with black schists and the first deposits of Tuscany Machimio. The gorilla has little agricultural vocation. Having a morphology characterized for seventy percent of its territory by mountains and steep hills predominantly shrouded in forest. Despite these physical obstacles, it is a region that has about five thousand hectares under Vine, testimony to the character of the laguardiance, any energy they expend sustaining an activity that we requires more than double the effort of any other vine growing area in Italy, which is the possible exception of Valtelina. The most cultivated white grape variety is Vermentino, which plays an important role in all the Appalachian. Pigato, albarola, and Lumascena, while the red grape varieties are Rosese, Ormiasco, Granancha, Chilio, sangiovese, and Barbera. Mainly present in the Riviera diponente and partly in the general area. Today's can be added the other wild grapes, Bianqueta genovese, Moscato, and rollo. Grown in the genovese area and the Gulf of Tigulio, and Bosco and Albarola grown in the cinque terre. These grapes of the Goria give rise to eight DOCs. Colly delaunay DOC, Chinqueter, and Chiqueterra, DOC, Colina de Lavanto DOC. 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