Ep. 1552 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 33 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

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The few and fragmented historical records of these populations come to us from the Greeks who, when they began to settle in Sicily from the eighth century BC, found the region divided between the sequence in the west, the siculians in the East and the Olympians in the northwest. The sequence believed to be of Iberian origin until the Greek historian Tymias quoted by Diodorus Nicholas in Esbiblioteca Histarca confirmed that to be indigenous were pushed into the western part of the island following a significant eruption of Mount Aetna that affected vast areas of land. With the arrival of Greek colonizers in the eighth century BC, Sicily was subsumed into the Magna Grisha, a period that saw the foundation of some of the island's most striking cities including Naxos, Syracuse, Lantini, Catania, and Messina. Naxos, which was established by the Calcadians, even bore a bunch of grape on its coinage. Cyracuse was designed by the Corinthians, all over the island, art and culture flourished, and eminent figures such as archimedes, Karunda, Epideklis, epicarmos, gorgeous, soffron, and Stesie Carlos distinguished themselves on their island. Degree colonization of Sicily brought about an important development of inological culture. Nor should the contribution made by definitions be overlooked, especially in the western part of the island where wine took on sacred significance. They also introduced certain grape varieties including Bibrinos, originally from Thrays, and used to make polio, the wine of syracuse, perhaps the oldest wine in Italy. Opinion are advised. For some, this vine can be identified with today's Moscato de Cirracuda. For others, it was a red grape variety, and the wine obtained was sweet and leaker like perhaps a relative of Nerello or Ferato. Genetically linked to the Calabrio Gallopo. Among the wines mentioned in Roman times was, the wine with which Caesar celebrated his victories over the goals. Malvasia Diipari, whose name derives from the contraction of Monem Baziya, a Byzantine team stronghold located on a promontory south of peloponnese is linked to the success of sweet wines that added to the commercial fortunes of diminutions in the middle ages. With the arrival of the Greeks and the founding of the colonies, myth and legends were also born, of which wine and agriculture in general were prominent subjects. The Greek presence prospered for a good five centuries, a period during which the sicilians became expert wine growers, giving impetus not only to the production of wine, but also to a thriving infrared industry, especially of the so called Gregco Italianic style. Following the arrival of the Romans, production continued to grow and expand throughout the territory. In fact, Sisenian wines were considered among the best and were exported to every corner of the empire. With the fall of the Roman Empire, sicilian beta culture experienced long years of stagnation, punctuated by occasional spells of prosperity. It was not until the arrival of the Arabs in eight hundred twenty seven AD, that is a serial agriculture system, flourished once again. And with it, wine production. Wine to wine business forum. Everything you need to get ahead in the world of wine, supersize your business network, share business ideas with the biggest voices in the industry. Join us in Verona on November thirteen to fourteen twenty twenty three. Tickets available now at point wine dot net. New techniques were applied and other cultivars added to the mix, including Moscato Delisandria and Zipito with its aromatic and crunchy grapes destined mainly for consumption as table grapes. The arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century brought the island back into a sphere of European culture. Although during their domination, the Arabs had continued not to take an interest in a variety of agricultural crops. It was first with the Anjavon, and then with the Arbanese, that a real boom began in vines as a crop that improved agricultural income, and wine became a valid currency for the payment of Texas and levies. Cecilium wines, including Martonico, Maritino, Vernacha, Moscatello, Malvasia, Bonaja, and Bianco Cômeone, began to be in demand again in the markets of Northern Italy and Europe. Thanks in part to the commercial skills of catalan, Genoese, Pisan, and Venetian merchants. Many foreign markets favor specific production areas such as Edma, the region experienced a new period of fame, with a turning point coming in seventeen seventy three, when the English merchant John Woodhouse tasted the wine produced in Marcella, and realized its extraordinary potential. There began a profitable trade within England, which subsequently expanded to the rest of the English colonies and beyond. This commercial development created a growth of the entire wine growing system of the western part of the island, which became the most viticulture fertile and led the interpreter Vincenzo Florio to begin producing his Marcella in eighteen thirty two underpinning the economic empire which enabled him to become the most important Italian chicken owner of the era. At the end of the nineteenth century, with the arrival of phylloxera, Sicily too watched helplessly in a large part of its vidocultural heritage was destroyed. The disease hasened a slow decline in Sassenia wine growing activity that lasted until the first half of the twentieth century before finally recovering in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A period that marked the qualitative rebirth of Cecedium wine. However, the role played by the demand from France for Cecedium wine after their destruction brought by Phylloxera should not be forgotten particularly wine from the Aetna area. Under unfortunately short sighted production logic, Idnian vine growers chose to increase yield by choosing varieties capable of ensuring greater production and alcohol content. In the decade, eighteen seventy one, eighteen eighty. Cecilia one exported abroad rose from about one hundred thousand to more than seven hundred sixty thousand hectoliters per year, this exceptional search in CCinem blended wine experts, which might have appeared sickle hole, actually became a constant in CCemon analogy until after the second world war. Geraphology. Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean, formerly known as Trinacria because of its triangular shape. It is surrounded by c to the north by the Iranian sea, to the east by the ionian sea, to the south by the Mediterranean sea, and is separated from the peninsula by the strait of Messina. Surrounding it, are some of the most striking archipelagos of the Marenostroma. The cradle of the most important Western civilizations in history, the Eolian, Ekady, and Palaje Islands. And the islets of Pustica, Panta Leria, Linoza, and Lampedusa. The southernmost point of Italy. In the north eastern part of the island is the volcano Aetna. Which rises to more than three thousand three hundred fifty meters above sea level. It is the most active volcano in Europe, together with Stromboli, an island in the Italian archipelago. Mountain covered twenty four point four percent of Sicily's surface area, a percentage characterized by several important reliefs. Some of which belong to the domain known as the Palabro peddo retaining arc composed of fragmented of the alpine chain from the sardou corso block formed in the Miocene, which separated from the original block and migrated Southeastwards. To position itself between the Ebonines precisely under the polino massive and northern Sicily near Montepe, between Messina and Pati effectively linking the epanines to the sicilian and African Magra. The mountain chain then continues to the west with the nebrody mountain chain whose highest peak is Mount Soro at eighteen forty seven meters above sea level, and continues with the Madonia culminating with a pizza carbonara picked at nineteen seventy seven meters above sea level. Extending on one side as far as the valley of the river, torto. A little further south towards the center of the island lies Montere on which the city of Enna is located at about nine hundred thirty one meters above sea level. The flat part of the island, which occupies fourteen point two percent of the total surface area, covers the southwestern coastal area. While the remaining sixty one point four percent is completely hilly with plateaus reaching up to eight hundred meters above sea level. The island enjoys a generally Mediterranean climate with very hot summers and fairly mild winters, while along the coastal area, the climate is subtropical changing towards the interior in the presence of the high hills from five hundred meters above sea level, where the average annual temperatures fall significantly. The rainfall concentrated in the winter period in the higher areas, and of course the Sirocco and westerly winds that affect the temperature and thus, the ripening of the management of the vineyards also contribute to the wine growing activity. From a geological point of view, Sicily belongs to the African plate with the exception of the north eastern part, which belongs to the Eurasian plate, formed by the Epini Magriebian chain, which is represented by a classic, polycalar stratum structure, characterized by sedimentary soils of carbonate and siloclastic terrigenous composition. The area located in the southeastern corner of Sicily, below the Ephonite chain, is in a transition zone between the two plates called Avanteze de Ibleau. It gave rise to the Jela Catania Avafosa, consisting of cretaceous cliff limestones. In the north eastern part of the island, rise the Montebellitoni, which represent the southernmost portion of the Calabrian Pedyrotonian arc and consists of Prisceline Strata. Dialin is home to Europe's largest active volcano, Aetna, of the celtic nature, which originated in the middle pleistocene with erupted activity at first submarine and then with the uplifting of the coast sub aerial. Much of the present volcanic edifice is covered by recent effusive products of various kinds consisting of compact rocks and accumulations of pyroplasticity, a particularly clay with considerable water storage capacity called alofane enables the vines to survive long periods of summer drought. Another phenomenon that should not be overlooked is sedimentary volcanism present in the sides of the Machalupedi Aragona near Agrigento, and the Machalupe de Terapelata in Cartalecita. This phenomenon renders the area bearing with fish in color and characterized by a series of mad, mud volcanoes about a meter high. Since antiquity, this geological liveliness has allowed the development of an important multicultural activity and enabled the possibility of maintaining a first rate, ampullographic heritage, in which white grape varieties, such as Cartarato Grillo, Incoria, Merccate, Moscateobianco, and moscato, Alexandria, and Malvasia delivery, and black grape varieties, including Calabreso or Nocera and Frapato have prospered. A quick overview of the main denominations in this region sees the most extensive concentration after the recent Cecilia Doc between the territories of Trapani and Palamo in the western part of the region. This is the Alcamo doc, which is located on the soft hills of the flesh substrates of Aronaceous Marley composition. The types specified in the regulations are Bianco, also Spumante, Bianco classico, Vendemic, Artarato, Ansonica, or in Grillo, Grechanicos, chardonnay, Mila Turgau, sovigno, Rosato, also, also, reserva, and Novelo, Calabrioze, or Corvernet Salvigno, Merlo, and Chirra. Near Palamo is the Kontea de Sklafani DOC, denomination, where the vineyards are cultivated on land belonging to the Ebonine Magribean chain, which has sedimentary soils of its originous and carbonate nature. Not far from palermo, towards Japanese, the city of Marcella boasts a domination in its name. For this famous and renowned liquor wine, grapes such as Grillo, Katarato, Domastino, and in solia are used for the wide version, while the Ruby version uses Penatello, Calabrisse, Nerello Mascalise, and Nereodable. In the Messina area, the soils are sandy clay with a rocky substratum made up of metamorphic ski stow mattresses, with the Faro DOC, which mainly uses grape varieties such as and and the Mumphi DOCA is located between the municipalities of Memfi, Zambuka, and Chaka in the province of Agrigento and covers a large area in the hilly part of Eastern Sicily, where the soils are mostly from the tertiary period and have a clay sandy composition with intercalations of conglomerate and chalk, noto, a city famous for its baroque historic center that has been declared UNESCO word heritage sites, has noto doc concentrated in small production area where the Moscato of the same name is produced. The muscato bianco vineyards are cultivated on soils of a carbonate nature consisting of pocharinated deposits of marine origin. Finally, there are the two DOC areas located on the sicilian islands. First, on the island of Salina, in the center of the Eolian archipelago, north is of Sicily, and the second on the island of Pantheleria, south of Sicily. Malvasia de Le Lipari is a grape variety that is said to have been imported to Salina by the first Greek colonists between five eighty eight and five seventy seven BC. The vineyards are mainly located on volcanic soils, rich in minerals, including silica and potassium, which influence the characteristics of the wine. Devines are trained very low due to a strong and constant wind on the island on ash, pumice, and dark color volcanic slag. The other denomination, no less important, is Moscato DiPanteleria DOC, which originates on the island of the same name in the province of Trapani, in the center of the Sicilian channel, about fifty miles from Tunisia. The island is characterized by an extinct volcano whose various erupted phenomena of Pumisha's nature have given rise to several beliefs. One of the highest of which is Montana Grande that rises to eight hundred thirty six meters above sea level, while the other is, which reaches seven hundred meters above sea level, both in the southern eastern part, vine cultivation, was introduced by the Arabs when they settled permanently on the island around eight hundred thirty five AD and was facilitated by the volcanic soils, drawing nourishment from the numerous minerals offered by the light soil reached in a special clay, which allows water to be stored during the winter period. The Alvarelo cultivation system is typical of the southern Mediterranean islands. Grown low between thirty and forty centimeters in height with or without support with three or four branches up to a meter long at the end of which in a spur of one to two buds. Vines are set inside characteristic, twenty centimeters deep holes surrounded by dry stone walls. More than sixty one hundred centimeters high. Which protect them from strong sea winds. 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