The Italian
Wine Cellar

Italian Wine

Italy is in hot competition with France to be the biggest producer of wine and by that we used to mean quantity, but Italy are producing some very high quality wine as well. Actually, Italian vineyards are some of the oldest in the world as it was the Romans who spread vineyards throughout Europe, but Greek settlers were producing wine in Italy long before the Romans started growing their own vineyards. However it was the Romans who organised large-scale production and it was the Roman who developed wine storage by making the first barrels.

Vineyards can be found everywhere in Italy. At the last count there were one million plus vineyards under cultivation.

Some rural villages in Italy still produce wine purely for their own consumption and tread the grapes in their bare feet inkeeping with tradition, but it is just so typically Italian to make wine infused with the romance of simmering summer days as I imagine girls in pretty dresses and laughing smiles up to their knees in grapes. And those traditional and romantic Italians would argue the ancient method still produce the best flavoured wine.

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