Ep. 1421 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 20 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

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The earliest traces of the grapevine in Veneto are preserved in the casts of theolithic posits in Bolka, where in eighteen fifty nine, the botanist, Abramo Masalongo, confirmed that the fossils he found in the Piscaya were none other than illustris ancestors of today's Viris Silvestris. It is not only the presence of an ampelidache belonging to the broad order of Vitache, but the oldest evidence of the presence of vines in Italy. While it is true that the people who inhabited the the Bros Age villages of the lower Lakearna area were not yet aware of the queues of grapes to produce wine. It is certain that between the seventh and the fifth centuries BC, forms of wild grapevine cultivation began in Vanental. Excovations at Palada have unearthed numerous seeds of Vitiveniferum, wild vine leaves have been found at Isola vicentina, and other grapes have been found in good condition at Cahuinta Dissarego in the British mountains. The etruscans are probably responsible for the dissemination across the territory, not only divine, but also the techniques used to ferment grapes, which became typical of the Mediterranean culture that considered wine an important mystical and religious commodity as studies of the evolution of the ornate drinking vessels from the period demonstrate. Viticulture expanded mainly around the marshy lands of the Venetian Hinterland, and in those territories around the city of Padua, where high planned productivity was guaranteed, and which supplied the Roman legions on the Rhine with wine. The crisis of the Roman Empire, however, had negative repercussions on all the region's agriculture, including Viticulture, which after domitian's addict in the second century in which the planning of new vineyards outside Campania and Latium was prohibited declined considerably. In the early middle ages, why growing remain active almost exclusively on the hillsides around Abies, monasteries, and castles. The wine produced was reserved for the nobility and the high clergy as demonstrated by a letter sent to the canon of Venice in which the Roman statesman and scholar Casidorus ordered soave wines, always be reserved at royal banquets describing them as follows, quote, The wide wine made from selected grapes has a beautiful whiteness that seems to have been created from a white lily. The vine became a crop that had to be cared for and preserved as demonstrated by numerous medieval agrarian lease contracts such as the one stipulated in the Cerviso area in eight hundred ninety four by Abbott Austreberto of San Zino de Verona. In which the tenant was obliged to plow the land at least once a year and to well manure the vines at least every three years. In addition to planning new vines in the Rosiles, the most suitable lands as determined by the land owner. To this day, plots of land are still known as Razzoli in certain parts of the Veneto. Other documents record transactions relating to vineyards in the territories of Gaza Soma Campania, Balpolicella, Val Pantena, the Elazi Valley and the Ugian Hills up to the city of Padua where around the year one thousand there were even vineyards within the city walls. The Colice de Plamatico Padovano states that land was seeded as long as vines were planted on it. Indicating that this included the Marsian lands of Kjia and the islands of Venice. With the rise of the commune communes and the decline of the or Menorial System of Land ownership. Viticulture continued its virtuous course as a novel and influential art of production of the early middle ages was replaced by one bourgeois Viticulture that, nevertheless, maintain a high degree of quality. Following the great frost of seventeen o nine, when it came to replanting the vines that had been destroyed, The rural classes favor abundantly productive varieties without paying particular attention to poverty. This contributed to a decline in status of Venital wines, which suffered an artist setback when international trade intensified between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a cons as a consequence, Viticulture ceased to be reliable source of income, causing the farming population to slowly abandon the countryside and search for a more favorable way of life elsewhere. It's declining economic status contrasted with a renewed academic interest in agriculture that flourished in verona, Padua, Rovigo Vincenza, Beluno, Treviso, Fedra, and Conigliano in this period. On February twenty sixth, seventeen seventy two, at a meeting of the Academia de Coneliano, two significant pitches were delivered. The first was by the priest Antonio del Gucci. Whole blame, the production of poor wines, and the consequent loss of credibility in foreign markets on the, quote, inexperience of the manufacturers and the poor choice of wines. The second important intervention came in the form of a question posed by Francesco Maria Malvaulti, quote, who does not know how exquisite are our Marzimini, Bianquette, Rosetti, Mosquatelli, Malvasia, and Gracari wines that are formed in various of this house, The significance of this question lies in the fact that it links prosseco for the first time with in eighteen sixty eight, the was founded thanks to the efforts of great pioneer Doctor Antonio Carpenter, and Abed Felicia Benedetti. The society was concerned with the education and commercialization of Treviso wine and was responsible for improving the purity of prosecco, where previously it had been mixed with other varieties. At the same time, count identified and selected a superior prosseco vein that is known today as prosseco Balbi. Are you enjoying this podcast? There's so much more high quality wine content available for mama jumbo shrimp. Check out our new wine study maps. Our books on Italian wine including Italian wine unplugged, the jumbo shrimp guy to Italian wine, sangiovese Lambrusco, and other stories, and much much more. On our website, mama jumbo shrimp dot com. Now back to the show. In eighteen seventy six, the second Italian Analyological Congress was held in verona while in nineteen o nine, Zava published the a descriptive list of old vines grown in Veneto in which is stated, quote, now that our Viticulture is taking a new direction. It seems to me all the more necessary to establish which fines deserve to be conserved, taking into account the needs of consumers, the need to have a few but good grapes that can finally give rise to the production of good table wine, appreciated here and outside Italy. Geo morphology. Venodaux is a land forged by fire and water. On one side, the mountains and hills, on the other, the plains. It is here on the plains perhaps more than anywhere else where the relationship between the population and the land is at its most obvious, immense ability to control the numerous one courses that flows through its defined landscape. It is a remarkably varied territory that extends from the Alps and the North to the Aziago plateau and to the Po River in the south, from the remote headwaters of the river Adige to the expensive Po Delta. You only have to travel a few kilometers and landscape completely changes. It is a territory that is full of surprises with a very combination of soils, which play a fundamental role in the region's diverse beta culture. Vanadog can conveniently be divided into two broad territorial areas that derive from the processes of formation and modeling of its surface. To the north, on the border with Trentino Elto Adigi and Austria, we find a mountain hill area with a nonvenir alpine surface. Disending, we find a pre Alpine heli area of volcanic origin, where a large part of the region's agriculture is concentrated. To the south, in the strip of land on the border with Emilia Romania. And that to the southeast overlooking the Adriatic Sea, flat land prevails originating from the transportation of alluvial materials from the numerous water courses on the Marine Estrada. Two other geographical elements to be considered because of their influence of regional wine broguing activity are the Piave River Basin, entirely enclosed within the region's borders and located near the eastern border with Freoy Vanessa, and the Lake Garden Basin, located to the west on the border with Lombardy. Body of water influence the climate not only a the immediately neighboring territories, but also of those slightly further fulfilled. A climate that in any case changes considerably both from the east to the west and from north to south, according to the morphological characteristics of the territory from the harsh alpine climate of the dolomites with cool summers and cold winters with frequent and abandoned snow falls. To the moderately continental climate of the hilly and lowland areas to the even milder climate found around Lake Garda area and the southern part of the region facing the Adriatic. Morphologically, Venato has a number of plateaus made up of calcareous dolomitic formations of the mesozoic age and subject to car stification, which give the landscape its distinct character. In the Western part, platform faces prevail, formed by the composition of several minerals while in the northwestern part. There are pelagic faces characterized by Calcareos and Calcareos Marley formations of red color such as red, a magnetic, and biancone commonly called Maiolica or Scalia. Volcanic activity of the submarine type that developed in the tertiary era from the collision of continental shelves shaped the important informations of the eocene and Oligosin, Basil, of the southern slopes of the Lissini mountains, Montebado, the Aziago plateau, as well as the Barici hills that rise from the alluvial plain in the Vechenza area. The Uganin hills are composed of treasured formations, light color acid rocks that emerge from the alluvial plain in the Padua area. With a distinctive shade called lecholides while the bezels of soave are dark colored and basic. Of more recent origin dating back to the quaternary era, are the soils of Bardolino and costoza. The result of glacial deposits that form the banks of Lake Garda. This soils of Maranic origin with a very varied physical and chemical composition form the basis of sensory characteristics of the red and white wines of western Veneto. The soils of Lughana also originated in the final stages of this geological area but present very different structural characteristics as they were formed from the transport materials of the internal circles of the glacial alpha theater consisting of silt and clay without the coarse particles that normally characterize such glacial bands. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on sunk out Apple podcasts, Spotify, email ifm, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through Italianwine podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, production, and publication costs. Until next time. Chichi.