Ep. 1562 Marco Gandini Narrates Pt. 34 | Italian Wine Unplugged 2.0

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A recent discovery has now shown that Vias have been present on the island since the time of the Neuragic civilization, which lasted from the eighteenth century BC to the Roman colonization in two hundred thirty eight BC. Some ten years ago, Whells dug into the rock for storing foodstuffs were discovered in Cabitas inside which these vinty vinifer seeds were found. Carbon dating carried out by the University of Kaili's Center for the Conservation of biodiversity led by Professor, John Wijji Bakikta, showed that seeds date back some three thousand years, supporting the idea that Viticulture was present well before the phoenicians and Romans. It is certain, however, that when Sardinia was conquered by the Romans in the third century, BC, Vines were scarcely present on the territory, and the wine produced in a rather modest manner, and of poor quality was mostly destined for local consumption so much so that not even pliny the elder mentioned it in his writings. There, followed centuries during which no evidence of viticultural activity survives. Except for the description of the Ladding system of pruning, and was mentioned by columella in the re rustica. With the collapse of the Roman Empire, the already poor sardinian beta culture almost completely disappeared a trend that was exacerbated by the Bavarian invasions that resulted in further destruction and the abandonment of violent cultivation. It was only thanks to the efforts of the Brazilian monks during the Byzantine Paris, which began in five hundred thirty four, and saw Sardinia become one of the seven provinces of the Exarcate of Africa. Then wine growing on the island experienced a revival. With the introduction of new vines planted around the monasteries. Viticulture on the island suffered no further significant downturns, even surviving the Arab invasion of the Mediterranean territories, that culminated in the conquest of Sicily in eighteen twenty seven, as Sardinia was only marginally involved in Islamic expansion, which ultimately triggered both the decline of Byzantine Empire and the gradual but the next inexorable detachment of Sardinia from Byzantine at the end of the eighth century. From Bizantun at the end of the eighth century. Until the arrival of the Arabs, the island had been governed by a Yudex Provice provincial judge who appointed four lieutenants, to add the four territories into which Sardinia was fighting. With the continuous Arab incursions, the Lochiservatores became increasingly autonomous from the central power, laying the foundation of the Constitution of the Foreicati, the four Sardinian kingdoms. We have to wait for the expansion of the maritime Republics, genoa, in pizza, in particular, and their struggle for possession of the island, provide cultivation to really gain new impetus. In twelve hundred ninety seven, Sardenius Northwest territories entered the Spanish sphere of the Aragonese, who in thirteen twenty nine instituted expert duties on every barrel of fine wine at a cost of one denaro in the case of red wine and two denari in the case of white wine. During the Spanish period, the number of varieties cultivated increased and wine production slowly exceeded local needs. In fact, in thirteen sixty one, in the Spanish province of Algero, a royal decree banned the introduction and sale of wines not produced in a territory in the month between October and April. In the remaining part of the year, wines from other parts of the island were subject to high custom duties, to high customs duties. In short, a protectionist policy emerged that protected a ghetto's wine growing industry, coupled with the application of precise rules in the rural cold that govern the planting, growing, and harvesting of vines. The birth of the judiciary of the cities of Carrie and Torres and the regions of Arborea and Kalura, ensure the good governance of Sardinia, and from an agricultural point of view, introduce a number of effective reforms. First, by consolidating and increasing the cultivation of vine crops, and then by incentivizing the wine trade, thanks to the measures introduced by Mariano's the fourth of Arvario. In the mid fourteenth century, Darborea issued the ordinamentos, DaVinja de Lavera Doris, known as the rural code, which later merged into the printed edition of the Carta de Lobo around fourteen eighty. This work was of fundamental importance as it included a civil and penal code to regulate certain sectors of the legal system. In eighteen o four, the real societa Gradiya de Conomica, the Royal Agricultural and Economic Society was established, and the behest of Carlos, King of Sardinia and Duke of Savoy, introducing elements of modernization in Sardinian agriculture, until it was wound up in eighteen sixty two. The appearance of phylloxera threw the sector into an existential crisis with a significant reduction in cultivated fills that blessed until after the second world war. Science of recovery finally arrived in the nineteen fifties with the first experiments to bring in cultivation systems with higher yields, such as the spellier and Marquis cultivation. Gradually, the area under vines increase in the calgary, moreau, and society areas, and in other areas throughout Sardinia, which with regional autonomy, saw the birth of many social wine sellers. Today, sardinia Viticulture has reached the right speed and is enjoying increasing perceived thanks to constant and meticulous work that focuses on enhancing the quality of native wines. Wine 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. Geomophology. Sardinia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean after Sicily. To the east, the turanian sea separates it from Italy by one hundred eighty kilometers, The book of the Bonifacio lies between the Island and Corsica. Why to the south, the Strait of Sardinia, divides it from the Tunisian coast, and the Mediterranean from the Valieric Islands to the West. It is the third largest region by area in Italy after Sicily and Piedmont and is fourteen percent maintenance with sixty eight percent composed of hills and rocky plateaus. Some of which have particular shapes known as or if granitic or or if composed of sandstone and limestone. The average altitude is around three thirty meters above sea level, while the island's highest massive in the Gen argento, whose highest point, which is one thousand eight hundred thirty four meters above sea level. Other spontaneous reliefs of lower height can be found in Galura, Sarabbos, and Flat areas represent eighteen percent of the regional territory. The only real plane is Campidano, an alluvial plane that extends from the Gulf of Oristano, to the Gulf of Calle. Last important is the plane between Partotores and Ibero called the Nura. The main water courses are the flumenosa and the cidrino. That flow into the Terrainian sea, the cuginis, and the terso that flow into the sardanian sea, and the flu that flows into the gulf of calyrian. There is a great lysological variety in sardinia. There are metamorphic, magnetic, and sedimentary rocks. Almost old mountains are formed from very ancient rocks that provide a perfect snapshot of the island's geological history. Beginning with so called sardinia face and a caledonian orogeny at the beginning of the paleozoic in which the first nucleus of today's Solchis was born before it emerged completely together with Corsica, during the Hasenian, Aragini, carboniferous. Through the displacements and collisions between the great African plates, the Eurasian plates, and the North Atlantic plates, between thirty five and thirteen million years ago, a deep fracture originated, leading to the detachment of microplates, which included Sardinia and Corsica to the northeast, and the Bella Airlines complex to the southeast. To and the Bella Eric Islands complex to the southwest. Viticulture has developed mainly in the Medio Campidano. Along the western coasts in the areas of Oristano, Angero, and Surchis, where vineyards have contributed significantly to the characterization of the landscape. The Campidano area shows a mosaic in which the oldest formations occupy the western slope, while more recent deposits are found in the center, and rocks dating back to the tertiary period are concentrated in the east. The soils are a varied texture. Some of them are clay originating from the draining of ponds and coastal june soils while they're on soils of good aggregation, with sufficient permeability and limestone suitable for the production and of sweet wines, such as Nascaux, Malvasia, and Moscato. This area also includes the Verma Challeristano zone. Which extends along the sides of the river Tristo to its mouth in the Gulf of Pakistan. To the north and east are hilly patches of rocks belonging to the Sardinium oligomyosin sedimentary volcanic complex and a plateau of plateoplazosin bezels. This hills were once much higher than they appear today. Having been leveled by the slow and inexorable impact of atmospheric agents, effectively creating sediments that fill the tectonic trench of the northern Cabidano. With powerful detrital alluvial layers often terrace that today form the horizon plane. Near the coast, marine and wind dynamics have created extensive fields of dunes, pans, and lagoons that are constantly changing. At the base of which are the sediments typical of these lake environments. Another important sardinean vine is which is cultivated on the bezels of the Dorgali area, the granite soils of the Nuro and Oliena areas, and the granite and metamorphic soils of polyastra. It proves particularly resistant on arid and gravity soils, although it prefers well exposed, ventilated areas, and cool soils. Carrianiano de Solces is produced in an area of the same name and also on the island of San Antonioco, which is made up of the Rioltic Rio dot cedek ignim rights from the oligo Miocene. Another historical grape variety is Malvasir, cultivated mainly along the northwestern coast on soils of volcanic origin. In the southern part of Sardinia, around Kageri, the Monica vine is grown, which prefers warm areas and soils of precarious salacious composition, and which is perfectly suited to Marley, well exposed soils in hilly areas. Galura, on the other hand, is the home of Vermentino and is characterized by a predominantly Granite pathology of herinian age dating back three hundred million years. However, it is between Albia and Postidi on eluvial soils of granite rocks that this vine finds its ideal habitat, especially at altitudes, orion between one hundred and six hundred meters above sea level. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. 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