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Viticulture in Italy, understood as the practice of growing grapes for the production of wine, has remote origins; Not by chance, the ancient name of Italy was Enotria (land of wine), from the name of the Enotrios, inhabitants of today's Basilicata and Calabria, who since 500 years before Christ developed and perfected the techniques of viticulture, winemaking and conservation Of the wine.
The vine existed in the peninsula for hundreds of years; the plants came mainly from Greece, as the names of some very diffuse strains at that time attest. The Etruscans kept alive the techniques of cultivation and wine production, particularly in central Italy; successively the Romans during the invasions of Gallia and Britannia exported both vine plants and their viticulture techniques to those places.
During the Middle Ages, viticulture was kept alive above all by the monks' merit within the monasteries, although it was mainly dedicated to the production of mass wine.
Viticulture in Italy, understood as the practice of growing grapes for the production of wine, has remote origins; Not by chance, the ancient name of Italy was Enotria (land of wine), from the name of the Enotrios, inhabitants of today's Basilicata and Calabria, who since 500 years before Christ developed and perfected the techniques of viticulture, winemaking and conservation Of the wine.
The vine existed in the peninsula for hundreds of years; the plants came mainly from Greece, as the names of some very diffuse strains at that time attest. The Etruscans kept alive the techniques of cultivation and wine production, particularly in central Italy; successively the Romans during the invasions of Gallia and Britannia exported both vine plants and their viticulture techniques to those places.
During the Middle Ages, viticulture was kept alive above all by the monks' merit within the monasteries, although it was mainly dedicated to the production of mass wine.
