Ep. 618 VIA Seminar Day 1 Pt. 1 (EN/ITA)| #everybodyneedsabitofscienza

Warning warning. Warning. This podcast contains information in Italian language. In the bad, this podcast contains information in Italian. Welcome to another installment of everybody needs a bit of Shenza. Class is in session. Followed the professora in his advanced wine seminars during the Venetal International Ambassador Certification course flagship edition in Verona. Seminers were on the must know Italian soils, Evini del Foco, Evini del mare, and Evini del gacho. Just in fire, water, and ice. Very game of Thrones, but way more nerdy. And, of course, starring our very own superhero professor, o. And for all those English speakers only in the house, Shenza's sidekick Francesco Marchio was there to back him up all the way, translating all the material on the spot, ching ching wine nerds. Before the show, here's the shout out to our new sponsor, Ferrowind. Ferrowind has been the largest wine shop in Italy since nineteen twenty. They have generously supplied us with our new t shirt. Would you like one? Just twenty fifty euros and it's all yours. Plus we'll throw in our new book jumbo shrimp kite international grape varieties in Italy. For more info, go to Italian wine podcast dot com and click donate or check out Italian wine podcast on Instagram. Say, well, you know, for my side, also welcome, here, and I'm very happy to be here. And, he hoping that you will be interested in the topic that we are going to discuss today. We we try to divide Italy in ten different soils, and then, the this is what the way we want to do during these three days. This slide, the basically saying that, the wine is not something that happened naturally. But it's the man, the human being actually make it happen. So as the winemaker, it's a lot to depends where the wine is made, where the wine, out of the wine is made, and also where, you know, the type of soil where the wine, where the vine is planted. This is a slide which actually show the Italian soil formation starting five hundred million years ago. And, our goal in these days is, we divided the the free classes in, the wines of fire So what the volcano actually did to, to create this type of soil. And then we have the wines of, the sea. So when the sea actually play, a big role in the Italy soil formation, And finally, we will have the the wines from the highs, which is not ice wine that we know, but we call it that way to make it easy. And that's what comes with, the glassation, the glass shell, and the moraine. Afillo, Africano. Not sure that it's added that you're open, sir. The quest, conformacy on a position on that, the Mortism is on a VT. Correct? Yes. This is a very important point in, Italian misinformation was actually the the collision between, European and African plaque. Basically, the African plaque push up, the, the European plaque and creates the formation of alps happenings. And these, really changed the the soil of the the the country we call Italy now, but it wasn't, at that time. So we're talking between two hundred million to one fifty million years ago. Change people on top of taxa. Yeah. So Italy is the richest country in the world in terms of, soil, soil variation. There is no other countries like Italy. It's that small, but very complex. So we have a one hundred and forty eight taxa. Taxa is an international, unit, that describe a category of soils, to give you some idea USA as fifty six Taksa. So we're talking about, three times more in a very small country, like Italy. This is, combined with the the six hundred planted, registered varieties of, of grapes, makes this Italy, you know, a very, very rich country, but at the same time, it's also saw a problem. Well, a problem for a professor needs to study more because, it will be easy to talk about five or ten different varieties in a very easy soil, but it gets very complicated in Italy. So, I I think this is important. And with the next slide, we understand why it's so important to to mention this, the concept of tax Yes. In Italy, we have ninety two macro areas. And this is important because, this area, basically, they match with the DOC and DOCG appellation. This, is a key point for the life of professor Shenza because he carried out many, many study of zonation. And this is was a very important point for Italian Eighty culture to understand the soil and the borders or the appalachians. Sometimes we don't know why, why, you know, the the one he he produced only until he are not taking no matter farther. That's the reason why, because there is a donation for that. Classification. He is showing in in, quattro, principally, category, geologic. La prima, category, geologic, to Yeah. So in Italy, we have, four major, different soil, which are sedimentary, volcanic, moranic, and metamorphic. Now Professor was talking about the sedimentary, which is the majority of Italian soil. From your map, you see two different color. The actually, the green color is the alluvional plain origin soil, and the brown is marine origins. So you can see how the the, you know, the wine of the sea will play a big role, on the formation of these these soils. And, sediments basically are all the soil formed by material, which has been deposited along the years. So, it can be marine, it can be a river, You have all the list, the moraine, and the fleece, the regionals. So, there are all these different type of sedimentary soil. So and for, say, in Europe, Yeah. The second one is a volcanic origin soil. We need to be careful when we talk about volcanic soil because, there's a big difference in Italy in terms of, formation million of years. There are some, recent, some other holder. We and the way their form basically was the Magma, who, following the push of the African plaque to, the Europe European plaque. So this push creates some fracture and, from the crust, the hairt crust and the magma came up and the volcano came up. This is a very simplified way to describe it, but we will see later in detail, actually how that happened. Yes, you said, that we have, as I mentioned before, the whole, and more recent cents, volcanic soil. The holders are the dolomites, for example, part of sardinian soil, and those targets a very long time ago. And, instead, then we have another area, for example, Etna, which everybody maybe is thinking or it's a very old soil. Not at all. It's a very, very recent soil. It's for the quaternary. So it's the area era that we're actually living in. And he only dated five hundred thousand years ago. This is also the reason why it's so active and still touching and, and it's an ongoing situation. It's not stopping now, but doing ongoing for many years to come. I did the reality. So, the the soil number free is the moranix soil. So the glacial soy. These are soil originated with the glaciation, and the tertiary in the quaternary in the quaternary area. And, basically, it was the movement of, the glass out back and forward, depositing, material. But this is only restricted to the alpine area. So it's very little in your map. You can see there is no match or even, cultivation of, or vines, any vines planted in this, this kind of soil. And, He's actually, the two most important realization that professor mentioned was the Ris and the Vuhr, both happen in the quaternary area. But we will see again this later, more in detail in the next stage when we will talk about that. No. So the last type of soil And, those was actually, that are mainly out of the Viticulture area. So there is no much vines planted again here. They are more concentrated in the Alpin region because once again, the push of, the African plaque to the the European plaque. And, there are some expression to that, which is, area of liguria, Cartenia, also Calabrio. And we divided this in the old and recent soil. But what is even more important is how they've been formed by pressure or by contact. By contact basically means by heating. So the magma, metamorphic soil are, rocks that are already existing and then the, have been transformed. So they can be transformed in two way. By contact, by hitting with the magma. The magma penetrates the rock, and the change of the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, become a different type of rock, metamorphic rock. And the other one is actually by, pressure. So, this has happened with, what we just say, with the pushell African plaque So the the the a rock actually, go in contact in pressure with another rock, and then they are kind of melted. This take a much longer time, of course. And they they create a new type of rock. That's the metamorphic rock. Unfortunately, this is, again, indeed, in the next future, in the next few days, but, it's important to just bear in mind that it's by contact or other by pressure. It's not significant for Viticulture, but, it's very important for Italian soil. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple podcasts, Himalaya, them 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.