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Southern Italian Wines and Geology

Southern Italian Wines and Geology. Terroir concept. Modern Italian Culture. Vitis vinifera. Domestic grape vine Vitis silvestris (native) Central Asia Southern Caucus Tigris Euphrates Originally from the eastern Mediterranean Climbing vine 4 m root networks Need frequent pruning .

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Southern Italian Wines and Geology

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  1. Southern Italian Wines and Geology

  2. Terroir concept

  3. Modern Italian Culture

  4. Vitisvinifera • Domestic grape vine • Vitissilvestris (native) • Central Asia • Southern Caucus • Tigris Euphrates • Originally from the eastern Mediterranean • Climbing vine • 4 m root networks • Need frequent pruning

  5. Spread to Italy (fast) • Greeks (Eastern Sicily) • Magna Grecia • Phoenicians (Western Sicily)

  6. Dionysis

  7. The Romans

  8. Horace • Leading Roman poet • Augustus • Coined • Carpe diem • Nuncestbibendum, nuncpedeliberopulsandstellus… “Now we must drink to stomp the ground with free feet”

  9. Wine making • Hand picking

  10. Treading the fruit

  11. Modern

  12. Fruit Fermentation

  13. The Celts, beer, and wooden barrles

  14. European Wine Classification • DOGC = controlled and guaranteed • DOC = just controlled • IGT = Typical of a region • VT = vinodatavola

  15. A glance a Sicilian wines • Warning! • 14 to 20% alcohol per volume • Approx. 75% • Indigenous grapes • White

  16. CorvodiSalaparuta • IGT

  17. Marsala • 19th Century English merchant • John Woodhouse • Desert wine

  18. Nero d’Avola

  19. Moscato

  20. Grappa • Warning! • 35 to 60% alcohol by volume • Strong taste think Everclear • Fermented from pomace (grape skins, pulp, stems, seeds)

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