Ep. 1491 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 27 | 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. Hello, and welcome to another episode of our Italian wine unplugged two point o. Today, it's time for Compania. Let's go into it. Kafania, historical background. Kafania is among the first Italian regions to have developed with a culture of importance in pre roman times, Thanks to the contribution made by the etruscans who introduced vines to the northernmost territories of the region from the eighth century BC. At that time, company was divided into three districts. The first located north of the River Vulturno, known as the Agro Valerno, which included the coastal strip of gulfs, with the maritime cities of Kume, andneapolis. The second, identified with the Nola plain located around Capua, and the third representing the area of Piano and Cales towards the semine mountains. Cales located on the Via Latina is today's Casivina. The territories were also influenced almost simultaneously by Greek culture, which introduced and spread cultivation techniques, and many grape varieties of orantal origin, more generally referred to as aminin, which genetically indicated their place of origin in Greece. After the second punic war, with the romanization of southern Italy, Viticulture experienced its greatest expansion. So much so that the concentration of vineyards in Campania was by far the greatest of the whole of Italy. The region's pine wine was carefully stored in large terracotta and furre called dolby, closed with huge wooden and cork stoppers to which were attached potassium terracotta plagues, all which were noted the aerial origin of the grapes, the year of the harvest, and sometimes the name of the merchant. The ampharig were then deposited in underground sellers. The fall of the Roman Empire inevitably led to a crisis in the region. By the second century AD, the development of wine growing in the western provinces, specifically in Gaul, where it coincided with the spread of Christianity, gradually deprive Italian wine producers of their lucrative transalpine markets. From the fifth century AD, there were also the effects of the preparing invasions. First, the goths, then the vandals, the Lombbirds, and then the Byzantines, Greeks from the East, who settled mainly on the coast and pitted the coastal strip against the inland areas with battles and trade wars. This resulted in the occupied cities of Galeta, Naples, Sorrento, and Amalfi, having markedly different histories from a very cultural and analogical point of view. Neilland areas were dominated by the Lombards, who called the Byzantine Lipotans of the coast Greeks. Centuries of decline followed, but in the early tenth century, benedictine and Vasilian monks, revived by cultivation in the region. The arrival of the Normans at the beginning of the eleventh century upset the pre established order because it put an end to the political and administrative divisions of the region. And and a constant internal conflict and accentuated the territorial and land division between the coastal area already poor in arable lands and the plains and inland areas. Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the importance of Campania's wines and waves diminished, and a long period of decline began. Wine became little more than a nutritional staple for the region's four. Over the next two centuries, many things changed in the region's wine grown sphere. Where Viticulture and breeding techniques geared towards the production of table grapes became increasingly widespread. Throughout the nineteenth century, various academic works dwelled on the wine growing areas of the province of Naples describing how vineyards were to be established and how the grade harvesting and winemaking were to be organized. These were mostly technical manuals that testify to the general malaise in which the system operated and how precarious the agronomic practices aim at growing vise where. The effects of wine diseases, powdery mildew, and phylloxera, were also felt in compania. T AFID arrived late in Compania and spread much more slowly than in other parts of Europe due to the loose nature of the volcanic soils that slowed the movement of the insect. This allowed the analogy of Campania to enjoy a favorable period, during which it exported significant quantities of wine to friends, especially from Tarazi. Local wide growers and technicians were under the illusion that phylloxera would never arrive in their vineyards, which were renewed without the use of rootstocks. After a few years, Fylaxorus struck hard, and the large part of the region's Viticulture was destroyed. It was not until the middle of the twentieth century that Viticulture began its renewal, with the recovery of ancient wine growing areas. Geomophology. Campania is bordered to the west and southwest by the Iranian Sea, to the northwest by Molisa, and to the east by Apulia and basilicata. Its territory is fifty percent hilly, thirty five percent mountainous, and the remaining fifteen is flat, covering both the companion plain and the Cedar River plain. Also belonging to the region are the islands off the coast, Ischa, Capri, and Prochida, as well as two smaller ones, Vivara and Nisida. The reliefs are mainly located along the central Appenae region, running from northwest to southeast. Where the Matese and Taburno massives are found. Continuing its words, the same reach is followed by an area of plateaus and basins, including those of Benavento and Montecalvo Elpino. While along the coastal area, there are healing areas of volcanic origin, such as, and other of sedimentary origin, such as the Latari and Masico mountains. The region is reaching water and is crossed by numerous rivers. The most important of which are the Vortuno, Sele, and Sarno. The climate varies considerably essentially distinguishing itself into two climatic zones. Are you enjoying this podcast? There's 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 guide to Italian wine, Sanjay Vazio, and other stories, and much much more. On our website, mama jumbo shrimp dot com. Now back to the show. The first, with a substantially mild climate influenced by the presence of the sea, starts from the Caserna coast and embraces the Napoleon area where their archipelago and the Salerno coastline. The second has a more temperate sub continental climate that includes the more inland areas with a higher altitude and strong climatic influence of the mountains. A large part of the region is exposed to humid winds of Atlantic origin due to a relative proximity to the Apine ridge to the coastal strip, which results in fairly abandoned rainfall throughout the territory. Along the apennine reach, on the border with Melissa and Napulia, there are imposing limestone reliefs characterized by car's morphologies. On the coastal strip interrupted by the volcanic cone of Vasuvius, There are small flat areas of limestone. Another important physical element is the geological instability of the region, which would have expressed itself over the centuries in the form of numerous volcanic eruptions, criticisms, of varying degrees of severity and earthquakes, some of considerable intensity. The continuous geological evolution, both ancient and recent, has led to diverse land use especially in the adoption of slope arrangements, the development of which has been greatly influenced over the time by climatic and socioeconomic events. TRS most suited to vine growing are Epenia, the Campiflegre and Sanio, as well as the Amalfi coast and ischa. The latter not particularly extensive geographically, but where terrace vineyards supported by dry stone walls of livestone blocks or volcanic tufts have developed. Epinia has a typical geological substratum of a recently uplifted chain with a broad contact between rocks of different ages and origins, where the valley slopes are made up of fledged deposits, while in the valley floors, there are pliocene sandstone clay deposits. A large part of the territory is covered by pyroclastic materials emitted in various explosive eruptions of the flagrant and vesuvian areas rendering the soil here particularly fertile. Ayaniko rains in the region. A red grape variety cultivated along the slopes of the Valle de Sabato, and Northeast to the River Calore in the province of Avilino, where they had spread since the end of nineteen nineteenth century, along with the white, fiano, and Greco varieties. Falangina, and other indigenous vine is cultivated in the Campi Flegle and Sanio area. Here, it finds its ideal habitat on geological substrates ranging from the hills of the Benavento area characterized by the presence of terrigenous flesh to the hilly areas formed by ash and the lapillae pumice of the flagrant area, and the slopes formed by lava slag and tufts. Of the now extinct volcano of Raca Molfina. Of the slopes of the Montemascico, north of the River Vulturno lies the production area of the Valerno Del Masico doc. One of the best known and most extolled wines since the Roman times produced in the ancient ages. Lastly, on the slopes of Vasuvius, on soils with a strong presence of potassium, and reaching leo sites, core staffs and lapili. Also known as is cultivated. However, it is most prevalent around the town of Tufo in the province of Avilino, where crops are grown on soils, form on terrigenous marine sediments, subsequently covered by thick pameses, pyroclastic rocks, and scenerates. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, EmLIFM, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through Italianline podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, production, and publication costs. Until next time.