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Italy occupies a leading position in the world ranking in wine production. Despite the fact that in Italy the level of consumption of wine annually reduced, production is constantly growing. Today Italians produce about 60 million hectoliters of wine per year. Areas of mass wine production are Sicily, Tuscany, Venice and Apollo.
It all started with the Greeks…
It was the Greeks in the X century BC. e. began to explore the Mediterranean, and during his colonial campaigns simultaneously engaged in the cultivation of grapes. The first point of sale famous wines of Sicily and Calabria. Of these cities the vines began to spread to the North of the country. Wine was the main drink of Italy. One of the great admirers of the noble drink was and writer Vergely, who has repeatedly mentioned about wine in his writings. The wine is even included in the diet of the slaves, though in truth, they served only low-grade types. Enterprising Romans produced wine in large scale. Storage drink they used amphora. And it should be noted that even then was wine that had been stored for an unusually long time (“Olympic” drinking after 125 years from the date of manufacture), indicating that the quality of the manufactured product. We would not know about these Roman achievements, if not the eruption of Vesuvius.
When in the third century the Carthaginians Hannibal attacked Rome, the whole of southern Italy was already occupied by vineyards. New breath for winemaking became the century of the Renaissance. The most famous house wine (Antinori and Frescobaldi) was founded at this time. But then came the hard times: in the XVI century, after the unsuccessful reign of the Medici Italy falls under the domination of the Spaniards and Hasburgo. The global crisis affected the production of wine. And it was not until 60 years of the 20th century, which became the starting point of the revival of Italian winemaking.
Today in Italy there is almost no place where it is not engaged in winemaking. Of course, not every wine produced here is of high quality, but the Italians are working on it. And thanks to the control of DOC annually reduced the amount of wine sold in tanks, and the production of quality bottled increases. But some producers bypass the rules, producing wine of low quality thinking it a fictional name. This, of course, does not make wine of Italy better, but allows the manufacturer to experiment. And who knows, maybe by trial and error the same Banfi Belnero Toscana or Tommasi Valpolicella.
