Italy wine never ceases to amaze !
The industry is constantly in turmoil, but who would have thought you could wine and Archaeology have something in common?
Certainly the Romans knew well and winemaking techniques, as well as being of good food, surely they were also "good glasses."
Basically, in vino veritas is their assertion that the "veritas" is certainly indisputable. But from now to think that a wine might have something to do with archeology there runs.
yet ... But let's start from the beginning.
Once upon a time ... in a quadrilateral in Caserta province which includes the towns of Castel di Sasso, Formicola, Free and Pontelatone, a flourishing production of wines of great prestige.
of this wine growing area, Pliny even talk about it in chapter XV of his "Historia Nathuralis" when he cites the high quality of wine produced at Trebula Baliniensis, current Treglia Pontelatone.
Among the fine wines produced in the area at the time of Nero, Pliny and inserted the Caulinum Trebellicum, nectar to the palate, now gone.
Moreover, few people know that only in Campania's native grapes are high quality in quantities greater than those of France.
Returning to our story, it is essential to remember that in 1852 there was the screw a serious outbreak of powdery mildew (cryptogamic disease) that led to the extinction of many precious vines in Campania. But, perhaps because the Romans loved wine to the point of leaving imbued with this love even their ancestral buildings, a strain of a special centenary lives managed to survive in an old Roman ruin in the town of Pontelatone.
From this strain, the farmers of the four municipalities in the area, succeeded in obtaining the vineyards in the area today, baptizing these vines as the Casavecchia, to remember the source of their original strain, the ancient Roman building ("the 'Grape' and chella old house ").
Until recently, the grape Casavecchia could not be used for the production of wine as it is not included in the National Catalogue of varieties kept by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. Thanks, however, a scientific research begun in 1995, funded by the municipalities of Pontelatone, Castel di Sasso, Free and Formicola, Casavecchia was able to secure inclusion in the catalog by a decree published in the ordinary supplement to Official Gazette of July 17 2002.
Casavecchia The wine is exquisite - for now IGT (Typical Geographic Indication) pending the approval DOC - from the bouquet, floral, fruity, with hints of wild berries and prunes, which matches very well the tastes of those of red meat or game and cheeses.
Casavecchia should be noted that the variety is present only in the municipalities of Pontelatone, Liberi, Castel di Sasso and tingling and can not be cultivated anywhere else, because it is a hard variety, cultivating outside this area would lose its unique characteristics.
This is not the case for so-called international varieties, like the Cabernet, Merlot, and let that take root wherever the excellent wine produced in Italy distant lands like Chile, Venezuela. Just this
international tastes of wines most popular is leading consumers to seek new products, with tastes less obvious and less flattened. From here, the particular success of the wines from Campania, increasingly demanded by connoisseurs around the world for their diversity of taste and their peculiarities inspired by the ancient traditions of production. The production of
Casavecchia is not great numbers, for which consumption is restricted to one area of \u200b\u200borigin: the vineyards produce a total of just 2,000 tons of wine grapes.
Hence the great value of this wine in Terre del Volturno.
If you want to taste this delicacy, you'll have to go under in the area of \u200b\u200bCaserta.
But it's worth it! Prosit.
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