Ep. 407 Sangiovese Lambrusco... | Marzemino and its Relatives

Welcome to the Italian wine podcast. My name is Joy Living in. And for the next several weeks, I will be bringing you some choice narrated content from the book San Jose, Lambrusco, and other vine stories written by mister Science himself, Professor Atigio Shenza, and Serena Eimaccio. Published by positive press dot net. To get a copy of the book, the kindle version is available on Amazon and hardcover copies are available from positive press. If you like the content we share each week, consider donating to our show. Find details at italian wine podcast dot com or on our social media channels. Sit back and get your geek on as we jump into the details stories and science of Italian wines and vines. Martzemino and its relatives. At the court, of the Constantinople vizier, the corporazione Del Tinllo was entrusted with the task of organizing the sequence of dishes often beginning by serving the tables with pastries of royal dough. Marzipan bread accompanied by sweet Martimino as was customary. Despite the guest of honor, King Henry the third of France, frugal and inhibited by his fear of being poisoned, only sipped a glass of wine. When the great council chamber of the Sedany Sima opened its doors, the menu was structured on dozens and dozens of dishes inspired by the most refined gastronomic culture of the Mediterranean including sweet and sour flavors of byzantine origin and meat and fish exalted by the fragrances of the most distinctive spices. This was the welcome that awaited the most illustrious guests in Serenissima, and even if Henry the third did not appreciate it that much, almost all of the other guests will have been pleased. Venice, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Also showed its greatness at the table. Thanks to the wine spices, sugar, from Cyprus, salt, and other thousands of goods that arrived to its doorstep from all over the Mediterranean. It was a testament to the strength and wealth of Northern Europe. Venice had seventeen theaters and was an essential stop on the grand tour. In the eighteenth century, it was identified in Europe as the capital of frivolity with unparalleled scenic art, baroque music, and relaxed costumes. Eighteenth century Venice was the backdrop in which Mozart imagined his Don Giovanni liberties, Lorenzo Daponte, Elias Ellios Emmanuel Coneliano, after the ab duration of the Jewish religion, writes the lyrics for his double Leporllo, the emblem of his conscience, and Don Giovanni, the emblem of debauchery. In an opera based on eclecticism, love for Lavela Lavita, rich salons, and gambling rooms. One could not forget to mention the excellent Martsemino, a fashionable wine in the Venetian aristocracy along with Tokai. Most probably Lorenzo D'apponte remembered that the Colalto counts ambassadors of the Republic of Venice in the Austro Hungarian Empire served Martimino in their palace in Vienna in the Platt Sam Hoff. At that time, the most requested wines in the Venetian Valagarina were the so called sweet red wine, the sweet white wine, and the balsamic wine, which included the wines obtained from the Martsemino grape variety. The quality attribute that gives this wine medicinal implications in Greek by Samon means medicine or refreshment is still implied in the Marque and Romania under the name Vasimina. Martsemino was already mentioned in Chivialle del friuli in fourteen o nine when a banquet was organized in honor of pope Gregory the twelfth. And Martsemino from Gradiscuta Udine was one of the wines served on the table together with Ribola Jolla de Rosato Verduce de Fais. It is a line presently found in most regions of Northern Italy, Myth and history overlap in the reconstruction of its journey to the Veneto. During this migration, it is appreciated for its recognized quality and cultivation in many places. Leaving traces from Anatolia to Greece, where it takes on different names, lefkas in Cyprus, Vartsami in corfu, Marzavy in Paris. According to this reconstruction, the Eastern shores of the Black Sea on the most distant ports of the Republic at the end of the caravan routes to the Indies and the Armenian city of Tabisonda. Fiercely depopulated by the Turks at the dawn of the twentieth century, where the places where these vines and wines would have been embarked on board ships. Climbing up the adriatic Fjord Martzamino found new homelands in the Marque and in Romania where its name changed to Barcelona or Burzamino. Following the military and economic power of the Republic, the vine also spread to Trentino on the Bresha side of Lake Garda and into the Bergamo area. A fascinating story of course, but is it true? In nineteen eighty nine, the first indication to the contrary was that some analysis of the anthocyanins present in the grape skins indicate a similarity between Terol deo La Grane and Martsemino on the one hand and some a million Lambrusco and old varieties of Val Pollichala on the other. These findings left the researchers speechless because they established kinship seemed unlikely. About ten years after the pioneering DNA analysis was completed, the results were confirmed that they were able to define more precise relationships between these finds. Matsemino belongs to a family of vines in which there are not only Terollego and La Grane, parent and brother respectively, but also Sierra and Mander's Blanche with Pino as the progenitor. Among the direct descendants of Martsemino, there is also a refosco, Al peduncoloro, so a very common variety in friuli. Therefore, This fascinating story of Martsemino coming from distant and exotic lands is thus discredited by genetic analysis, which opened the doors to a new story, one that is no less interesting made of distant and almost surprising kinship. Further elements of uncertainty were created by the discovery of an almost unknown variety, the Martse Munone found in the vineyards of the Bergamo area. This is a genetic variant of the Martsemino gentile, very close to the Greek Verzami. Thank you for listening to this week's installment of San Jose Lambrusco and other vine stories. We hope you expanded your horizons and gave your brain cells an Italian wine workout. We'll see you again next Thursday and remember the kindle version of the book is available on Amazon and hardcover copies are available from positive press dot net. 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