Ep. 1452 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 23 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

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Today, it's time for Tuscany, Tuscana, historical background. Tuscany is perhaps the most well known region in the world. For the etruscans, it was Tushka. For Italians, it is Tuscano. And for the rest of the world, it is simply Tuscany. In whatever language you pronounce it, Tuscany always conveys a profound sense of artistic opulence and natural beauty. Tuscany represents the very epitome of the Lavela Vita of an Italian style that in its landscape and its food and its wine represents something timeless. It plans history, tradition, landscape, environment, and the art of the SafuaF that has always fueled its economy. Suscon Viticulture could not help but to be influenced by all this. So much so that wine has always been a pillar of the region's social economic system, from the etruscans who based their economy on it to the Romans who administered it for centuries. Up to the more recent feudal lords who oversaw its production for generations. The history of Viticulture in the region can be traced back to the eighth century BC. When the presence of Vithis binifera was documented in Etrulia, the ancient region that now includes Tuscany. By the end of the seventh century BC, an important wine export business was flourishing throughout the region and into neighboring areas. A profitable trade endured throughout the Roman period until the end of the third century BC, when there was a sharp decline in fortunes, with the spread of large agricultural estates known as Latifundia and worked by slaves that shaped not only Tus wine production, but the entire Italian agricultural economy for the next two centuries. After the decadence of the Roman Empire, production suffered a downturn that lasted until the early middle ages, surviving thanks only to the monastic orders that in the twelfth century brought by cultivation to the heart of Florence to the great basilica of Santa Maria novella, which was once almost entirely surrounded by vineyards. Another important contribution to wine growing in the region was made in delayed middle ages by the great noble families, including the Ricassoli, Matze, and Frisco Baldy. Whose historical fame was linked to the wine they produced and who traded with the most important regional and national markets. This period also saw the birth in Florence the guild of wine cellars, of which the Antinori family was a founding member. The Antinari family winery sold Tusacan wines both in the local markets and to the rest of Europe. As documented by numerous customs bills that survived from the period. Early documentary evidence of many of the grape varieties, there are still representative of Tus Convita culture today dates back to the beginning of the fifteenth century including Monteppucciano, the various Trebiani, Malvasier, Aliatici, and San Giovanni. The name of the region's most renowned wine Kiente has several possible origins. One of the most credible theories links Kiente to the etruscan Clante, which means water referring to the territory known as Colina Delcanti, Hills of Canti, which were a particularly rich source of water. Another theory maintains that the name derives from the Petronymic Clante, the name of an etruscan family. Certainly, the first document identified the county wine production area dates back to the thirteenth century and refers to the foundation in Florence of the, an institution set up to regulate administrative relations between the trio of Hilltop towns, and Castelina. Who produced a red wine based on San Jose. The league adopted a black rooster on a golden field as its coat of arms. The blossoming of the arts, architecture, science, and literature, that occurred in Tuscany during the Renaissance and transformed Florence into a global center for art, commerce, and finance also extended its beneficial influences to agriculture. Leading to improvements in production techniques and wine quality. The medici family showed a particular interest in wine, which for the middle and upper classes became a commodity symbolic of wealth and status. As well as an important diplomatic lubricant used to ingratiate Tuscan diplomats in occurs and palaces of rulers throughout Europe. In fact, during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Tuscon wines had reached the Kurds and Palises of England, Holland, Spain, France, and Austria, despite some lingering question marks remaining about certain of the culture of practices. In seventeen sixteen, Grand Duke Cosimo the third, Demeti issued the a proclamation of the limiting the boundaries within which the wine of Canti Pumino Carminiano and Valdardo di Sopra could be produced. This was perhaps the first ever attempt to protect the geographical integrity of a specified wine. But the grand jury went further and published a decree with which he established the, a new body to oversee the production, shipping, protection against fraud and trade of wine. In the mid eighteenth century, the most far sighted wine growers encouraged by the newly founded Academia de giorgolfini seventeen fifty three Hussain was to promote scientifically based studies, experimented on grape varieties and cultivation techniques, and organized cultural exchanges with other countries, marking the beginning of a new era of Viticulture modernization. Are you enjoying this podcast? There is so much more high quality wine content available from 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 the second half of the nineteenth century, another new stimulus was provided by the arrival of two influential figures in the sector. Baron Beatino Rica Soli and Vitoro de Yalbizzi. The former nickname the Iron Baron, although very involved in the politics of the nation, first as mayor of Florence, and then a second president of the Council of the Kingdom of Italy, succeeding the count of Kavu never lost his interest in Viticulture, which he cultivated at the family owned estate at Castello de Broadio where he dedicated himself to experimenting with typical task combines, evaluating various systems of Venus management, VINification, and aging faces of wines. Ricasoli also developed the first codification of candy wine. Which became known as the recipe for Kianti, which remained substantially unchanged until the institution of the DOCG in nineteen eighty four. Vitor de Gerbizzi is a last well known figure in the history of Italian agriculture, but he played a significant role introducing new multicultural methods in the Pumino area. Geo morphology. Tuscany borders Emilia Romania to the north and northeast, Lagurya to the northwest, market to the east, and umbria to the southeast. To the south, it borders Latio, to the west, the Iranian sea, and the Lagorian sea in its northern confines. The territory is mostly hilly, sixty six percent with few flat planes, only nine percent. Including the Paldarno, the Valdicana, and the strip of land along the coast that runs almost uninterrupted from Brasilia to the Marima. The remaining twenty five percent of its territory is covered by spontaneous relief, mainly the tuscan a million epanines. There are also other spontaneous areas in the region that should not be overlooked. Including the imposing acorn alps, located to the north above Masa and Karada, and extending his words, delineating the western part of Gatfanyana. The, located between the provinces of Livorno, Piza, and Roseto, the Monte, Amiata massive, divided between the provinces of Siena and Roseto. And from which the Arno, the longest river in the region has its source. The Tuscan archipelago is also part of the region. The island of Elba is the most important, along with the islands of Jidio and Montecristo. The highest average annual temperatures are those near the coast of the Marima which are around eighteen twenty degrees. Temperature tend to increase towards the interior and to the north of the region. On the plains in the inland valleys, such as in the mid of Valdarno and Balicana, summer highs often reach forty degrees contrasting with a rather harsh winter lows, sometimes even a few degrees below zero. Precipitation also varies from area to area. Being very abundant near the Eppenae mountains, along the West East axis that goes from the Antoine Alps to the Casentino. Here, the annual rainfall reaches two thousand millimeters. Along the coastal strip that runs from Livorno down to the Roseto Marima, especially on the Angintaro, barely five hundred millimeters of precipitation per year is reached. This average is very similar to that recorded in the Cretes senesi Valdorcha and Valdiciana, where On average, six hundred seven hundred millimeters per year is reached. From a geological point of view, Tuscany has a significant complexity that merits detailed analysis. During the middle myosin, the so called main compressional phase of the epanines was completed resulting in the formation of the deposits of rocks derived from the evaporation of marine basins the alabaster of Fortera, and the clade with chalk on the coast. Further inland within the Lake basins, clays and lignite beds are deposited. In the Valdeza and Siena areas, there are pliosa informations of Claze and Marine Sandy clays that a little further inland give rise to the characteristic landscape of the crete senesi interrupted by gullies. Turning our attention to the areas of viticultural interest, while growing in Tuscany has developed in two main areas. The Machimia zone and the playa place to see in Sandiclase zone. The areas north of the Arno, the Apuana, Lunigiana, and Upper Vercilia, are areas that have not favored vine growing because of the morphology of the steep slopes, but there are some exceptions such as the lower hills of the Ruchesia the Pistoya area, the area on which the colony of loonie appalachian gravitates, which is located on the soils of the ligurian state run. Black rotational shifts and strips of Machigno. And the area of the Kandia de Colia Puani DOC between Masa and Cararada, which is characterized by ancient soils of the Tuscans stratum. The vineyards are located on south facing hillsides with well trained clay y urinaceous, Machimio, or gravely Sandy vila Franciano soils. In central Tuscany, The Canti Crasico area lies in the Hille area between Florence and Siena delimited by the Valarno to the east, the Elsa Valley to the west, the Piza River to the north, and the RB River to the south. This area, young information, is air to ancient regions where soils reach in Alparaise, Galestro, rocky sediments, sand, and silt intertwined. The center of the area is the reach of the County Mountains that rise to eight hundred meters above sea level in the northern part, sloping more carefully southward when they need the Ombrona and Orchard valleys. This area gives rise to numerous county wines from the most elegant, those produced on soils with little clay and silt, to those with more structure whose wines are grown on soils reach inside a clay. Soils are so varied even within a few hundred meters of each other, which can have a profound effect of the resultant wines. Beyond the Craty Sanuzzi lies the Brunoo de Montecino, an area that is not particularly vast, but has a variety of different soil types, which in moral, Palumbine, clay, and lake, and marine sands. Continuing on the Valdorcha and Valdicana, where the vino nobile de montepulciano Appalachian extents, while encounters homogeneous soils consisting of clays and sands from the pliocene marine era nor does the coastal strip have any geological uniformity? Here, various Lagorian soil components are mixed and alternated with those of the Tus can straight up and the mild maritime climate and the stony well drained and mineral rich soils has created ideal conditions for the vineyards, even if the high temperatures with which remain constant during the ripening of the fruit do not always help to give finesse to the wines. However, there are many appalachians present. Starting with the Pisan wine roving areas where the Kienti sub zone Colina Pizan and DOCG, Montecudayo DOC bulgaric TOC, Valdicornia, DOCG, El Baliaticopa Cito, DOCG, Elba DOC and Monterego de Masa DOC mainly gravitate. In southern Tuscany, beyond the alluvial plain of the umbrone near Groseto, there are soils very similar to those of maritime Tuscany. However, One must also consider the important presence of volcanic rocks from the and further south devoccini volcanoes. And Moreno Discansano DOCG appylations extend into this area. 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