People and places Flashcards
Guillia Falletti and Camillo Benso (Staglieno)
Leading figures in Italian unification
Promoted dry Barolo to Savoy
Benso was Count of Cavour and became Unified Italy’s first prime minister
Also Stagliieno, Oudart
Carlo Gancia
Piemonte Created Asti Traditional method for Moscato Tank method for Spumante Single fermentation
Giulio Ferrari
Introduced traditional sparkling wine to Trentino
Background in champagne
Trento DOC
Aged on lees
Elisabetta Foradori
Pioneer of Teroldego in TAA
Bred many biotypes and strains in 1970s
Less extraction and cool fermentation
Franco Ziliani and Berlucchi Winery
Invented Franciacorta
Initially all Pinot Bianco
Angelo Gaja
Barbaresco in Piemonte
Quality in vineyard
Reduced yields
Slovenian and French oak
Domizio Cavazza
Barbaresco in Piemonte
Director of Royal Enological school of Alba
Created first co-operative in his castle c 1900
Produttori di Barbaresco
Antonio Carpenè
Founder of wine school in Congliano 1876
First wine school in Italy
Refined tank method of Prosecco
Carpenè Malvoti (wine)
Mario Schiopetto
Applied Germanic and Austrian techniques to FVG wines
1960s
Clean fresh style
Jasko Gravner
Pioneer of orange wines in FVG
Ribola Gialla
Clay amphora from Georgia
Stanko Radikon
Pioneer of orange wines in FVG
Oak
Frederico Martinotti
Piemonte
Invented sealed tank sparkling fermentation method 1895
Also called tank or Charmat method
Barolo boys
Young producers of Barolo in early 80s experimented with new style of Barolo - less tannic and more fruit driven
Geralamo Conforti
Wrote about Franciacorta in 1570
Foundation Institute Mach
Trentino
San Michele all’Adige
1874
First wine college in Italy
Dolomites
Trentino
High proportion of Magnesium
Vini Volcani
Group of volcanic DOCs
Inc Soave, Colli Eugenie, Etna etc etc
Rauscedo Nursery
FVG
Grapevine nursery
Largest in world
Cardinal Mercurino Arborio
Gattinara DOCG
16th C introduced Nebbiolo wines to Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire and acquired fame until end of 19th C
Count Fabio Asquini
1762 exported 100,000 bottles of Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit all over Europe.
Put Picolit on map
Perusini
Beginning 20th C saved Picolit from extinction
Viticulteurs Encaveurs
An association created in Valle d’Aosta to promote quality wine making (over coops) which now demonstrates some of the best wines in the region
What is the Institute Agricole Regional?
id, research and preservation of VdA’s viticultural heritage
Livio Felluga
1960s helped modern white Italian wine making
Jermann
FVG Producer who created Super Whites “Vintage Tunina”
Who is Mario Emilio Lepido?
A Roman Consul
Built Via Emilia
Who was Pippin the Short?
King of Franks
Asked by Holy See to fight Lombards
And defeated them
Roman Emperor Domitian
92 AD, forbade Northern Italy to export wine to the south. Sent exports over the Alps.
Who was Edmuch Mach
Founder of Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige
What is the Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’Adige
1st school dedicated to viticulture and enology in Trentino. 1874
Giacomo Tachis
Red wines in Toscana
Giorgio Lungarotti
Torgiano - Umbria
Walter Massa
brought back Timorasso
“Produttori del Barbaresco”
1st coop in Barbaresco
Founded by Domizio Cavazza
What did Bruno Giacosa and Vietti produce and where?
Arneis in Roero 1970s
Who is Ceretto?
Followed Bruno Giacosa and Vietti to produce Arneis in Roero and became more transformative.
Emmanuele Filiberto
House of Savoy
Moved Capital from Chambéry to Torino
