by Catherine Accardi

We all know winemaking in Italy goes back centuries, actually back approximately 4,000 years, when a climate ideally suited to growing grapes made Italy one of the most prodigious regions for this enjoyable beverage. Herculaneum archaeological excavations have even uncovered an ancient wine shop in Ercolano, Italy.

By the time the Greeks arrived in Southern Italy, wine was already part of everyday life. The Etruscans and Romans refined the winemaking process to an art which was eventually called vinificazione. La vinificazione è il processo biochimico di trasformazione dell'uva in vino e del suo affinamento, or, in other words, winemaking is the biochemical process of transforming grapes into wine.

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Fonte: L'italo-Americano