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People - Southern italy Flashcards

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Frescobaldi

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Tuscany Pomino Long standing wine family

14c AD

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Baron Bettino Ricasoli

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Tuscany Long standing wine family 12c

Recipe for Chianti in early 19c

Sangiovese 50-80% + Canaiolo 10-30%

plus required white grapes Malvasia & Trebbiano (min10%, max 30%)

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Antinori

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Tuscany Long standing wine family 14c

A descendent was instrumental in Super Tuscans in Bolgheri

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dCosimo Medici

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Tuscany

1716 Bando Edict

Chianti

Carmingnano

Pomino

Val d’Arno

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Giacomo Tachis

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Tuscany Founder of quality wine

Sassicaia and Tignanello

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Giulio Gambelli

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Tuscany Sangiovese Brunello Master taster

Father of Sangiovese based wines

Poggio di Sotto

Montevertine

Soldera

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Marchese Morio Incisa della Rochetta

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Tuscany Bolgheri Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc 1960s-70s cousin to Antinori

Producer - Tenuta San Guido

Found the gravelly soils at his estate and planted CabSav/CabFranc

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Pliny the Elder

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Elba Falernum Sagratino

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Count Ugo Contini Bonacossi

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Tuscany

Helped to Resuscitated Carmingnano which lead to becoming a DOC 1971

Tentuta Capezzana

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Adamo Fanetti

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Montepulciano 1930s

Created Vino Nobile di Montepulciano for the 1933 Siena wine fair

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Giorgio Lungarotti

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Put Umbria on the wine map in 1968

Rubesco Vigna Monticchio - Torgiano Rosso Riseva DOCG

12m in OAK, longer aged

Produced wine in the town of Torgiano (which his firm remains almost the exclusive producer) and released labels Rubesco & Torre di Giano winery 1960s

Sangiovese

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Marco Caprai

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Umbria

Arnaldo Caprai Producer

Saved Sagratino Montefalco

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Clemente Santi

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Tuscany Montalcino

1850s Oenologist Sangiovese (pharma student)

Began experiementing on his estate - Fattoria del Greppo

Introduced innovate practices

1. Monoculture of vines

2. Longer Fermentation

3. Longer Macerations

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Ferrucio Biondi

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Tuscany Montalcino

1880s Grandson to Celemente Santi

founded Biondi Santi

Took over estate 1885

Cultivated his best Brunello grapes for fruity quality and disease resistance and propogated cuttings through massal selection

Destemmed to avoid bitter tannins & Slovakian large oak ans sold as Brunello

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Tancredi Biondi

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Tuscany Montalcino

Son of Ferruccio who took over in 1920s

Formed Coop to save wine production after phylloxera

“Cantina Sociale Biondi Santi e C”

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Catherine of Medici

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Carmingnano, Tuscany

Brought French Cabernet grapes varieties Queen of France

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Guido Cocci Grifoni

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Marche

Brought Pecorino back in the 1980s

Found a vineyard with old, ungrafted Pecorino

And people followed since 2000s

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IMTV Instituta Marchigiano di Tutela Vini

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Marche Northern and Central Marche

An umbrella Consorzio est 1999

16 appellations (800 wineries)

4 DOCGs in Pesano-Urbino, Ancona and Macerata

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Visciola

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Marche

Wine from cherries

Vernaccia di Pergola or Montepulciano + wild cherries

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Roman Emperor Frederick II

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Umbria Jesi town = Citta regia

Granted Jesi with “special rights”

Puglia = Castel del Monte

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Johannes Defuk

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Montefiasco, Lazio

1111 AD

Found the wine top quality here used

Est Est Est

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Falerno

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Campania Farmer who met Bacchus Monte Massico

Expensive Roman wine with quality levels and zones

Honey, spices, sea water

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Leonardo Mustelli

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Father of Campania’s modern wine

Selected and Propogated Falaghina from old vines around Sant’Agata dei Goti

Thought it was Falaghina Flegrea - but was Falanghina Beneventana

Sant’Agata di Goti 1970s

ALSO - began producing fine age-worthy Anglianco in 1950s

Released Taurasi Riserava 1968

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Aglianico Ferrovia del vino

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Wine Train

Bulk red wine of Aglianico

Transported north 19/20th c

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Antonio Mastroberadino

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From Campania

Saved Fiano by bring back in the 1940s

Used local varieties Aglianico di Taurasi 1968

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IRW or IRVOS

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Sicily Institute for researching viti and vino

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Mamertinum

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Sicily

Ancient Roman wine Area to west of Messina

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John Woodhouse

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1770s trader

Started trade in Marsala Vino perpetuo

29
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Benjamin Ingham

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1830s British Merchant Marsala

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Planeta

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Sicily 1st winery 1990s Menfi DOC

31
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Donnafugata

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Sicily

Well known producer Contessa Entellina DOC

Blend of Nero d’Avola and Syrah

32
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Francesco Avallone

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From Campania

Falerno del Massico

The estate of Vila Matilde

Saved Falanghina Flegrea in 1970s

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Leone de Castris

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Produced 1st commercially available Rosato “Cinque Rose” in 1940s, Salento, Puglia

34
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Rosa del Golfo

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Transformed rosato into a Salento specialty

35
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Who is Carole Meredith?

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A professor from UC Davis who proved Primativo and Zinfadel were identical in 1990s and later the Croatian grape Crjenak Kastelanshi (or Tribidrag as known in Croatia)

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Who is Fazi Battaglia?

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The Producer who introduced the green amphora-shaped bottle for its Verdicchio in 1953 inspired by the Etruscans

37
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Andre Bacci

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Native from Matelica

Philosopher & Naturalist

Physician of Pope Sixtus V

Wrote “De Natural Vinorum Historia” 1598

Describes the viticulture and winemaking of best Italian wines in Renaissance

38
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Stefano Mancinelli

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Credited for saving Lacrima from extinction by creation of Lacrima di Morro DOC in 1985

39
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Francesco Scacchi

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Marche - 1622

Wrote “De Salubri Potu Disseratio”

Instruction to make fizzy wine and was 1st example in Italy

40
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Cosimo Villifranch

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Florentine physician & scholar

Published “Oenologia Toscana”

1st Accurate work about enology in Toscana

41
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Antinori’s Tignanello & Felice’s Vigorello are considered what?

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Super Tuscans

42
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Tenuta San Guido​

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Producer of Sassicaia

Founder Mario Incisa della Rocchetta

43
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Luigi Veronelli

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Italian Wine critic who gave the early high rated review of Sassicaia

44
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Palari Estate

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Resusciteated the FARO DOC Appellation in Sicily 1990s

Has one of the most noteworthy terroirs

45
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Countess of Modica

Vittoria Colonna Henriquez

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Founded the town of Vittoria in the 17th c

Offered 1st 75 settlers 2 ha of land solely to be planted by vines.

46
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What are

Antinori’s Tignanello, Tenuta

San Felic’s Vigorello,

Sassicaia

Isole e Olena’s Capparello

Colli Toscana Centrale’s Flaccianello

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Super Tuscans

47
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Albizi Estate

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Pomino DOC

Introduced French grapes to the region

Later inherited by Frescobaldis

48
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Cantina Foligno

Adanti

Tardioli

Arnaldo Caprai

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Producers saving Sagratino in Montefalco, Umbria

49
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Settesoli

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A Coop - Sicilia’s LARGEST grape grower and wine producer

Home is Menfi DOC

Also where Planeta started

50
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Tasca d’Almerita

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Sicilia

Contea di Sclafini DOCG (2 wines only)

Most prestigiuos producer in Sicilia

51
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What is the Lega del Chianti

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League of Chianti 1384 - official act for historical zone of origin

Chianti Storico (to become Chianti Classico)

52
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What is the Accademi dei Georgofili?

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1753, Founded in Firenze - goal to improve and advance agriculture in Toscana

It is still active

53
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Columella

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Roman

Ideal soils and winegrowing for each grape

54
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Domitian

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Roman Emperor 92 AD Edict to stop growing vines

55
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Pier de Crescenzi

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14th century Agronomist

1st wine document

56
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Sfoza

Gonzaga

Medici

Visconti

Duchy of Savoy

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Most important signoria families

Sfoza - Milano

Gonzaga - Mantova

Medici - Firenze

Visconti - Genoa

Duchy of Savoy - Savoy, Valle d’Aosta, Piemonte

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Mario Schiopetto

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Venezia Giula - wine practice for modern white wines

58
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Federico Martinotti

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Tank Method - Piemonte 1895

59
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Cantina Novelli

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Rescued Trebbiano Spolentino

Italian Wine Scholar Unit 2 TB (49 decks)

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