People - Southern italy Flashcards
Frescobaldi
Tuscany Pomino Long standing wine family
14c AD
Baron Bettino Ricasoli
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%)
Antinori
Tuscany Long standing wine family 14c
A descendent was instrumental in Super Tuscans in Bolgheri
dCosimo Medici
Tuscany
1716 Bando Edict
Chianti
Carmingnano
Pomino
Val d’Arno
Giacomo Tachis
Tuscany Founder of quality wine
Sassicaia and Tignanello
Giulio Gambelli
Tuscany Sangiovese Brunello Master taster
Father of Sangiovese based wines
Poggio di Sotto
Montevertine
Soldera
Marchese Morio Incisa della Rochetta
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
Pliny the Elder
Elba Falernum Sagratino
Count Ugo Contini Bonacossi
Tuscany
Helped to Resuscitated Carmingnano which lead to becoming a DOC 1971
Tentuta Capezzana
Adamo Fanetti
Montepulciano 1930s
Created Vino Nobile di Montepulciano for the 1933 Siena wine fair
Giorgio Lungarotti
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
Marco Caprai
Umbria
Arnaldo Caprai Producer
Saved Sagratino Montefalco
Clemente Santi
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
Ferrucio Biondi
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
Tancredi Biondi
Tuscany Montalcino
Son of Ferruccio who took over in 1920s
Formed Coop to save wine production after phylloxera
“Cantina Sociale Biondi Santi e C”
Catherine of Medici
Carmingnano, Tuscany
Brought French Cabernet grapes varieties Queen of France
Guido Cocci Grifoni
Marche
Brought Pecorino back in the 1980s
Found a vineyard with old, ungrafted Pecorino
And people followed since 2000s
IMTV Instituta Marchigiano di Tutela Vini
Marche Northern and Central Marche
An umbrella Consorzio est 1999
16 appellations (800 wineries)
4 DOCGs in Pesano-Urbino, Ancona and Macerata
Visciola
Marche
Wine from cherries
Vernaccia di Pergola or Montepulciano + wild cherries
Roman Emperor Frederick II
Umbria Jesi town = Citta regia
Granted Jesi with “special rights”
Puglia = Castel del Monte
Johannes Defuk
Montefiasco, Lazio
1111 AD
Found the wine top quality here used
Est Est Est
Falerno
Campania Farmer who met Bacchus Monte Massico
Expensive Roman wine with quality levels and zones
Honey, spices, sea water
Leonardo Mustelli
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
Aglianico Ferrovia del vino
Wine Train
Bulk red wine of Aglianico
Transported north 19/20th c
Antonio Mastroberadino
From Campania
Saved Fiano by bring back in the 1940s
Used local varieties Aglianico di Taurasi 1968
IRW or IRVOS
Sicily Institute for researching viti and vino
Mamertinum
Sicily
Ancient Roman wine Area to west of Messina
John Woodhouse
1770s trader
Started trade in Marsala Vino perpetuo
Benjamin Ingham
1830s British Merchant Marsala
Planeta
Sicily 1st winery 1990s Menfi DOC
Donnafugata
Sicily
Well known producer Contessa Entellina DOC
Blend of Nero d’Avola and Syrah
Francesco Avallone
From Campania
Falerno del Massico
The estate of Vila Matilde
Saved Falanghina Flegrea in 1970s
Leone de Castris
Produced 1st commercially available Rosato “Cinque Rose” in 1940s, Salento, Puglia
Rosa del Golfo
Transformed rosato into a Salento specialty
Who is Carole Meredith?
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)
Who is Fazi Battaglia?
The Producer who introduced the green amphora-shaped bottle for its Verdicchio in 1953 inspired by the Etruscans
Andre Bacci
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
Stefano Mancinelli
Credited for saving Lacrima from extinction by creation of Lacrima di Morro DOC in 1985
Francesco Scacchi
Marche - 1622
Wrote “De Salubri Potu Disseratio”
Instruction to make fizzy wine and was 1st example in Italy
Cosimo Villifranch
Florentine physician & scholar
Published “Oenologia Toscana”
1st Accurate work about enology in Toscana
Antinori’s Tignanello & Felice’s Vigorello are considered what?
Super Tuscans
Tenuta San Guido
Producer of Sassicaia
Founder Mario Incisa della Rocchetta
Luigi Veronelli
Italian Wine critic who gave the early high rated review of Sassicaia
Palari Estate
Resusciteated the FARO DOC Appellation in Sicily 1990s
Has one of the most noteworthy terroirs
Countess of Modica
Vittoria Colonna Henriquez
Founded the town of Vittoria in the 17th c
Offered 1st 75 settlers 2 ha of land solely to be planted by vines.
What are
Antinori’s Tignanello, Tenuta
San Felic’s Vigorello,
Sassicaia
Isole e Olena’s Capparello
Colli Toscana Centrale’s Flaccianello
Super Tuscans
Albizi Estate
Pomino DOC
Introduced French grapes to the region
Later inherited by Frescobaldis
Cantina Foligno
Adanti
Tardioli
Arnaldo Caprai
Producers saving Sagratino in Montefalco, Umbria
Settesoli
A Coop - Sicilia’s LARGEST grape grower and wine producer
Home is Menfi DOC
Also where Planeta started
Tasca d’Almerita
Sicilia
Contea di Sclafini DOCG (2 wines only)
Most prestigiuos producer in Sicilia
What is the Lega del Chianti
League of Chianti 1384 - official act for historical zone of origin
Chianti Storico (to become Chianti Classico)
What is the Accademi dei Georgofili?
1753, Founded in Firenze - goal to improve and advance agriculture in Toscana
It is still active
Columella
Roman
Ideal soils and winegrowing for each grape
Domitian
Roman Emperor 92 AD Edict to stop growing vines
Pier de Crescenzi
14th century Agronomist
1st wine document
Sfoza
Gonzaga
Medici
Visconti
Duchy of Savoy
Most important signoria families
Sfoza - Milano
Gonzaga - Mantova
Medici - Firenze
Visconti - Genoa
Duchy of Savoy - Savoy, Valle d’Aosta, Piemonte
Mario Schiopetto
Venezia Giula - wine practice for modern white wines
Federico Martinotti
Tank Method - Piemonte 1895
Cantina Novelli
Rescued Trebbiano Spolentino