Wine tasting tour - Campania

Much modern wine culture derives from the practices of the ancient Greeks. The exact arrival of wine in Greek territory is unknown.
Greek wine was widely known and exported throughout the Mediterranean basin, as amphorae with Greek styling and art have been found throughout the area, and was most likely the origin of the first appearance of wine. The Greeks introduced the Vitis vinifera vine and made wine in their numerous colonies in modern-day Italy, Sicily, southern France and Spain.
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The Roman Empire had an immense impact on the development of viticulture and oenology. Wine was an integral part of the Roman diet and wine making became a precise business. As the Roman Empire expanded, wine production in the provinces grew to the point where the provinces were competing with Roman wines. Virtually all of the major wine producing regions of Western Europe today were established by the Romans. Many grape varieties and cultivation techniques were developed and barrels, and later glass bottles, began to compete with terracotta amphorae for storing and shipping wine. Wine making technology improved considerably during the time of the Roman Empire.  cheese and wine tasting
Following the Greek invention of the screw, wine presses became common on Roman villas. The Romans also created a precursor to appellation systems, as certain regions gained reputations for their fine wines.
Wine, perhaps mixed with herbs and minerals, was assumed to serve medicinal purposes. During Roman times the upper classes might dissolve pearls in wine for better health. When the Western Roman Empire fell around 500 AD, Europe went into a period of invasions and social turmoil, with the Roman Catholic Church as the only stable social structure. Through the Church, grape growing and wine making technology, essential for the Mass, were preserved.

Bacco tasting wine After the harvest, the grapes are crushed and allowed to ferment. Red wine is made from the must(pulp) of red or black grapes that undergo fermentation together with the grape skins, while white wine is usually made by fermenting juice pressed from white grapes, but can also be made from must extracted from red grapes with minimal contact with the grapes' skins. Rosé wines are made from red grapes where the juice is allowed to stay in contact with the dark skins long enough to pick up a pinkish color, but little of the tannins contained in the skins.
During this primary fermentation, which often takes between one and two weeks, yeast converts most of the sugars in the grape juice into ethanol (alcohol) and carbon dioxide. After the primary fermentation, the liquid is transferred to vessels for the secondary fermentation. 
Here, the remaining sugars are slowly converted into alcohol and the wine becomes clear. Some wines are then allowed to age in oak barrels before bottling, which add extra aromas to the wine, while others are bottled directly.
The time from harvest to drinking can vary from a few months to over twenty years for top wines. Many wines of comparable quality are produced using similar but distinctly different approaches to their production; quality is dictated by the attributes of the starting material and not necessarily the steps taken during vinification..

Sit back and relax while sipping complimentary sparkling wine in the vehicle and allow our knowledgeable chauffeurs/tour guides to take you to the wineries of your choice. We offer tours, in Campania Region, to the most famous Mastroberadino and Feudi di San Gregorio; Cantine Caggiano and Cantine del Vesuvio and much more… Tours focused on education, history and obviously taste.

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