Ep. 1481 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 26 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

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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. Historical background. Marqu is one of the most lively and interesting regions in the panorama of Italian Viticulture. But wine production is not particularly well documented, Indian literary and archaeological sources. The origin of Viticulture in the region can be traced back to the arrival in a territory of the first peoples who came to from the Masia across the Adriatic in the second millennium BC. We begin to have more reliable information from the Tencentury BC from the Pestinian civilization, which settled in the southern part of the region, promoted Villa culture as part of the early commercially exchange, they initiated with the neighboring etruscan populations from who they learned, cultivation techniques, and later with the Balkan and Greek populations. The strategic position of the territory allowed trade between both sides of the adriatic and between the north and south of the peninsula through what was called the Adriatic bridge, as well as with the islands of Dematia, where numerous Greek colonies were situated. The ancient cultivation of vines is evidenced by the discovery near the town of Matelica in the province of Macherata of a tomb that belonged to a noble person dating back to the seventh or eighth century BC. Among the objects found was a basin containing more than two hundred grape seeds of Videsvenifera. Divoundess of seeds suggests that the container helped locally produced grape berries. After the second punic war, the Roman presence on the western short of the adriatic sea became more important as demonstrated by the numerous farms where hundreds of vines were cultivated. As Plini mentions, a wine produced in the Encona area, the Petuciano. A fishes, a well known gastronome of the time, also mentioned the wine produced from the grapes of the vines that were also known as due to the variable color of the bunches. More reliable evidence dates back to Roman times when Piseno, the southern part of the region, was described by Latin geologists such as Kolumella and pliny the other as an area reached infertile soil where vines were luxurious. The latter recounts that market was a source of food supplies and generous wines from the Roman legions. Which were stationed along the course of the Rhine, towards the north, one wine was produced by blending red wine from the bassinium area with the more alcoholic wines of istria to reinforce the low quality wine produced in the Padua area. Pliny's account was so detailed that even dwelled on the quality of the grapes, speaking of the Inzolia or Hirtziola grapes found in the bassinium area in umbria and March esteemed in France. The decline and fall of the Roman Empire coincided with a similar decline in agricultural activity changing Viticulture profoundly. Many lands were abandoned as a forest regained the upper hand once more. The Nigerian tree lined vineyards that had marked the period of theocene and the Romans gave way to small vineyards often closed villages and enclosed by fences where the vines were very dense and train low in the albarado style. The few cultivated vineyards occupied small vegetable gardens where they also shared space with other fruit trees. After suffering further setbacks, as a result of the Bavarian invasions, wine growing was partially restored by the Edictum Rotari In six hundred forty three, the first reading codification of Lombard Law, which is preserved in the library of the Abbey of Saint Galen in Switzerland, and which also established rules and rights for the protection of vineyards, as well as severe fines for those who harm them. The survival of the region's better culture also relied on the commendable work of the monastic orders, which to enable the celebration of mass, were encouraged to cultivate vineyards wherever the climate permitted. Despite these efforts, vine cultivation still languished for centuries, even though it retained the important symbolic and cultural value it had in the past. Proof of this can be found in numerous ornamental artifacts of religious art of Marque, not least amongst the ancient duomas of Ancona and Tolitino. The various plague epidemics that struck one after the other between the fourteenth and fifteenth century hit the agrarian population of market hard effectively emptying the countryside and provoking a migratory flow of farmers from the Verona area to settle around the town of Yezi, famous as the birthplace of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II. The migrating farmers from verona brought with them rootstocks of veronese vines, including the Treviano Disoave, which over the centuries was transformed, giving rise to the Verdicchio known to us today under various appletions. The Renaissance spirit brought a flourishing new commerce, which also benefited the wine trade, and thanks to the improved economic conditions across certain social classes renew interest in wine growing generally. The arrival of Filoxera was first reported in market region in eighteen ninety twenty two years after its accidental introduction into southern friends from the American continent. It coincided with a period of significant political change for the region, which had recently witnessed the annexation of the People States into the kingdom of Italy. The outbreak led to a significant contradiction of the area under vines, which fell from one hundred seventy thousand actors in eighteen eighty to just sixty thousand actors in nineteen thirteen. Confirming the official analysis of the region carried out towards the end of the nineteenth century. As in other Italian regions, producers in market now began to focus on improving the quality of the wines they produced. In a region where the presence of trellises and an ecological economy that relied on local or family consumption of wine made with a singingly random mix of various grape varieties would differ characteristics harvested and unified with little thought given to the degrees of ripeness of the grapes, the modernization of analogical techniques, the establishment of specialized vineyards, and the introduction of significant reforms to agronomic plantings were now necessary. 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 foods, and taking in the scenery. Now back to the show. However, the very cultural reconstitution of the nineteen fifties and the nineteen sixties did not allow the rationalization of plantings that had been hoped for at the end of the nineteenth century, and the region continued to favor promiscus rather than specialized cultivation. The custom of planting several varieties intermixed along the same row was maintained, even postponing the adoption of a few quote, improved varieties of non regional origin. This approach made it possible to conserve a high degree of ancient varietal biodiversity of farms where divine growers were the guardians of this variability. At the beginning of nineteen seventies, when the process of modernizing wine growing finally got underway, partly through the financial intervention of the European Economic Community, and its European agricultural guidance and guarantee fund, producers drew on the unpelegraphic base they had available. In this way, Verdicchio, San Giovanni, Montepulciano, Biancame and Vermont Anera became the vines of the various denominations rather than the international varieties, which were already having an impact in other regions. In fact, small quantities of international varieties were already present in the modern areas of the region. And became part of Marcus and Palographic heritage a few decades later without profoundly altering it. Gyrophology. The market region is located in the eastern part of Central Italy, It borders Emilia Romania and the Republic of Samarino to the north, Tuscany to the northwest, umbria to the west, lazio to the southwest, Abruzzo to the southeast, and the Adriatic sea to the east. Thirty percent of the territory is spontaneous. Sixty percent is hilly, and the remaining ten percent is flat along the coastal strip. The inland areas are characterized by cool summers and harsh winters with frequent snowfall. While north of Acona, the coastal strip enjoys a sub continental climate with more distinctly Mediterranean characteristics to the south along the Riviera Del Palma. From a geological point of view, market and neighboring umbria have many similarities since they are located on the same continental play, differing only in the position of the mountain ridges, which lie truthfully instead of longitudinally. As are the river valleys with respect to the atriatic sea. On the border with Romania, there are plates of ligurian units that make up the Maricchio valley flow, while in the areas of Fabriano, Mantelica and Camarino, there are Miocene terrains, a geological phase that began twenty three million years ago and ended only five million years ago with a so called chips and so forth formation. The Matyadica valley is located between four hundred and seven hundred meters above sea level between the umbrio Machiziano Appanines, the pre apennino Machiziano and the Montecibilini chain to the south and is the only valley in market that runs parallel to the Adriatic. It is formed by a full called Synclinale Camerte, a marine depression of the Miocene that collected Tauraginous deposits, plish, and turbidites, altering sands and culcarios Mars covered in a quaternary by eluvian and groundwater debris. The valley, underly, the outer valleys in the region, has a north south orientation, and the latitude that sustains a continental climate with little ventilation, strong temperature excursions, and a good annual rainfall. The production area of On the other hand, falls on the hills that flanged the river Ezzino and is made up of soils from very compact biocene clay substrates. On the gentler slopes of the area, The soils are less compact. While in the valley floor, the alluvial soil is a Sandely culcaryas, north of the river, Ezzino, in a limited area of the province of Acona between Marodalba and Senigalia. The La Crima de Moradalba, the nomination is cultivated. The vines are planted in the hilly areas suitable for this wine with a preference from clay and or sandy soils. Valley floor soils and those of the slopes facing the sea, including those in the municipality of Senigalia, the typicality of the coastal area with deposits slightly sloping towards the sea and influenced by the action of rivers that have carved valleys with their straight path is interrupted only by the Monteconaro area, which represents an exception of the geological panorama, not only of the area. Back to up the Adriatic coastal strip, together with the Napoleon Gagano. The promontory, which is just over five hundred meters above sea level, has a confirmation that keeps it such an appearance of majesty that it has earned the Appalachian mountain. Vineyards have developed mainly in the southeastern part protected from the cold North Italy winds. The soils here consists of sandy clay sediments from the place to see and are rich in limestone. In the southwestern part of Marque, between the Toronto and Azo Rivers, an important wine growing area extends around the town of Ofida, whose geological substratum is made out of clays and find c sands from the upper pliocene in clays, from the lower pliocene and sense and conglomerates of literal and continental environments. The widest area in the market region is that of Erosso Picchino, which partly encompasses the areas around OFida and partly consists of a clay substrate with only a few sandy intercalations and pleistocene conglomerates. Finally, we have the production area of Vernatcha Tisera Petrona located near the town of the same name in the province of Macherata. Here, the Hilly and maintenance territory is characterized by steep slope valleys. The geological substrate is quite uneven ranging from Kalkarius and Kalkaria's Marley terrain, auto tertiary, mesasonic, to Marley, Marley, Aronaceous, and Aronaceous terrain of the Miocene. A sparkling red Pacito wine made from the native Verna Cenera grape variety is also produced here. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, email, IFM, 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.