Hey wine lovers! 🍇🍷 Join me, as we embark on an exciting journey through Romagna, Italy’s most underrated wine region. In this first episode of our five-part series, we’ll explore the unique climate, geology, and grape growing practices that make Romagna’s wines so special.
Romagna is a treasure trove of amazing wines, stunning architecture, and delicious food. From the picturesque city of Bologna to the enchanting vineyards along the Via Emilia, there’s so much to discover. Whether you’re a seasoned oenophile or just planning your first visit, this series will give you everything you need to know.
👉 What You’ll Learn:
The unique climate and geology of Romagna
Key wine-producing areas and grape varieties
Must-visit cities and cultural highlights
Tips for enjoying Romagna’s wines and food
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00:00 – Introduction
00:33 – Welcome to the Series
01:01 – Overview of Romagna
01:27 – Key Cities and Landmarks
02:56 – Significant Vineyards and Wineries
03:54 – Romagna’s Wine Production
04:24 – Navigating the Region
05:27 – Imola: The Gateway to Romagna
06:06 – Notable Attractions and Historical Sites
07:12 – Cesena: A Hidden Gem
07:52 – Rimini: The Seaside Resort
09:54 – Climate and Geology of Romagna
13:21 – Soil Types in Romagna
16:21 – Upcoming Videos in the Series
16:53 – Closing Remarks
[Music]
hello everybody Jimmy Smith here of the
wine with Jimmy Channel thank you for
stopping by so this is a wine Channel
dedicated to all things vinus welcome
here to a series on the wonderful Roman
part of Italy so this is going to be a
lovely free series for everybody to
enjoy really getting to grips with this
kind of um forgotten part of Italy it’s
an area which is not so well known
outside of Italy itself so I’ll go
through all those details for you if you
do have any comments or questions please
do get in touch I’d love to hear from
you have you been before are you
planning to go you’ll find in these
presentations many things you need to
know about visiting the region and of
course how to enjoy the really lovely
wines of the area
so let’s have a look wonderful
architecture there’s fenza which is a
beautiful part of
Romania here is your Series so it’s a
five-part series to really cover the
whole of this wine region so I’m going
to go through in this first video the
introduction climate geology and great
growing then in future videos I’ll go
through key specific dogs that’s a wine
area such as Alana and then also Roman
sanesi Doc and its key subzones and then
finishing on some of the recent vintage
assessments the area is really quite
spectacular uh if you do have a chance
to visit you’re more likely to fly into
bolognia which is of course a fantastic
City often called the red City because
of its gorgeous red rofs that you’ll
find across the whole city uh do look
out for the things like the ducatti
museum lots of great Motor Sports around
here of course with IMA uh but also the
ducatti museum which is in Bologna
you’ll find the Ferrari Museum which is
located in Marinello near Modena so of
course one of the most iconic car
manufacturers in Italy uh it’s quite
well known for the Ravena mosaics as
well that city is beautiful and it has
these stunning Byzantine mosaics which
are really found in some spectacular
architectural churches and also
monuments there’s great food as well
parmesan is quite famous from here more
over in Amelia uh but also balsamic
vinegar production around Moda as well
which is more in the Amelia area but of
course you’ll find it very much
throughout Roman as well so here is your
location for the wine region
now Romania has about
28,000 hectares of vines uh and that’s
fairly substantial so this is the
equivalent really of about burgundy in
France and about half the size of the
lair Valley in France so there’s quite a
lot of significance of production here
in this region uh in
2023 the total production was around 1
million bottles uh it’s just shy of that
and normally sits around that
number your productions here then the
colored area on your map is in fact the
viticultural area so to give you an idea
of the location you’ll see towards the
top of your map is the city of bolognia
where you’re likely to fly into in a
very small airport but it serves the
area you then head down the Via Amilia
which is the main road towards IMA and
that’s when you head into the Roman
Vineyards because the other side which
is shaded around bolognia and then going
up towards the Northwest is the Amelia
part so Amelia and then Romania so we’re
only looking at this southeasterly
section Romania it holds one
docg and that in fact is the area which
is covered by the stripes in the middle
of your map map that is Romania
albana there are five Doc’s which I will
go through a little bit later four IGS
which are larger wine areas and in terms
of producers here we have 120 in total
that includes 108 wine producers four
bottlers and eight cooperatives we have
around
5,200 great growers in the area
just so you have a little bit of culture
about the wonderful architecture that
you can see and the key locations so
first of all there is the city of Imola
so if you do fly into bologna and start
to head down to the southeast you will
come to Ima so this is a city and a
commune and it’s in the metropolitan
City area of bolognia and it’s located
on the river
santerno it’s traditionally considered
the Western entrance to the historical
area of Romania so one could say that it
is the Gateway between Amelia and
Romania the city is very well known for
the autod droma Enzo idino Ferrari which
hosts the Formula 1 imid Raman Grand
Prix of course and it formerly hosted
the San Marina Grand Prix which rather
infamously of course is well known for
eron Sena crashing and dying during the
1994 Grand Prix the picture you see here
is of the sorza castle it’s built under
the reign of
jaro and Katarina sza it now houses at
the cinema distate which shows films
throughout July and August also it’s the
location of the world famous
International piano Academy and rather
spectacular too
uh next up is
fenza so it’s only around 60,000 people
it’s at the foot of the first sub
appenine Hills and it’s surrounded of
course by an agricultural region which
includes rather key
Vineyards uh the land here kind of
traces its roots back to the ancient
Roman land division system and the
fertile Market Gardens in the
plains now according to mythology the
name of the first settlement which is
fantia had atran and Celtic Roots
meaning in Latin splendo into deos
meaning I shine among the
gods so of course rather a spectacular
location Shena as well is
next uh so this is a beautiful place
which is located now down more down
towards the coast and that is your uh p
the poo in
chz we then have
rman so this is along the Adriatic Sea
it’s situated at a strategically
important north south passage along the
coast at the southern tip of Italy’s
largest river as it meets the Adriatic
that’s the Po River it’s larger this is
about
150,000 people and it’s one of the most
notable Seaside resorts in Europe with a
significant domestic and international
tourist economy you’ll find a focus on
bathing spas and wellness in
remman now the ancient Romans founded
this settlement they called it arinum in
268 BC and of course that’s where
remines atmology comes from today
there’s the famous Arc of August Aus and
the Ponte di tiberio which is actually
called the Ponte of Augustus as it
started being built in the Augustus rign
and finished in
Tiberius now the during the Renaissance
the city benefited from the court of the
House of
madesta Hosting artists of course from
Tuscany like Leonardo da Vinci and
producing the tempio malatestiano in the
19th century also so lots of a focus
here for Italian unification which
eventually came through in 1860
1861 so now moving on to more sort of
climatic and geology so we get a good
sense of the landscape in order to talk
then about wine
production um the picture here is of
some typical Roman Vineyards the general
climate here would be considered Ed
Mediterranean though of course when you
start to go Inland up the main road of
the Via Amelia and head towards places
like fenza uh Imola and also fley you’ll
find that you become more semic
Continental in those Landscapes where
you start start to get a little bit more
of a increased rainfall but also that
increased dial range now rainfall per
year ranges from about
645 mm on the coast in places like R up
to about
750 mm when you head towards fley fenza
and bolognia so there’s an increase of
about 100 millimet per year as you head
up uh sort of up the Via Amelia but also
going towards the appenines a little bit
more
now a little bit on the landscape here
as well talking about the geology Italy
has a remarkable complex geology we will
find a lot of seismic activity here so
the whole appenine range and also the
Alps very much will have lots of Tremors
and earthquakes because of the activity
here we find volcanic soils dotted
around the landscape but we’re going to
be focusing on uh a kind of eras which
are quite a long time ago we’re going to
talk about the mine and the Pline Epoch
it’s what you actually see on your Maps
there on your pictures so both of these
areas submerge many parts of the
Northeast the Po River Basin which is
pretty much what you see in Blue on the
miocene map on the left hand side it’s
the largest water Network and the
longest river in the whole of Italy but
also then many parts of west coast of
your Italy so you can see the outline in
Orange there is in fact the outline of
Italy uh and you’ll see a lot of that
was covered at this time so these epochs
run long time ago we’re talking sort of
uh
5,332 million years ago to around
2,588 million years ago the Adriatic Sea
and the PO play
are two parts therefore of the same
sedimentary Basin the PO Basin developed
in front of the appenine chain from the
upper middle pleine was about 3.5
million years ago finally sand and clay
were deposited at those times uh and the
continuous accumulation of new sediment
over geological time whilst the oldest
sediment gradually sank to increasing
depth so you have more solid bedrock and
of course alternating layers of things
like Sandstone clay and of course
calcarius Limestone as well so that’s of
course very important across our region
like it is in the PO Basin as well so
let’s talk about those soils we have
reddish soils to begin with typically
around the main road the Via Amelia
which is a very important road which
goes right through through Emilia and
Roman especially around the Villages of
DOA which is a beautiful Mountain
Village Imola and fenza that we
mentioned earlier so these are soils
that are derived from clay but they are
rich in oxidizing iron hence why they
have this kind of reddish color to them
but they are poorer in
Limestone brownish soils are next these
are north of the V Amelia that Main Road
dissecting the region fertile clay often
quite deep and poor in Limestone you’ll
typically get quite fruity wines coming
from these
areas then we have light blue Clays
doesn’t look so blue in this picture uh
but they are a little bit of a different
color now there’s a ridge that runs
parallel to the Via Amelia from bolognia
to Min and that’s where you get these
bluish and Gray clayes from the Pline
Epoch they’re rich in Limestone and
sodium and you get very powerful
concentrated wines from these types of
soils then a very important type of soil
these are the fossilized okra Limestone
soils they’re close to Ridge of erosion
furrows predominantly in the Foley and
sh
Area Yellow sand and clay of Pline Epoch
as well and they’re rich in Marine
origin Limestone typically your kind of
fossilized style as the name suggest
there’s a form of this which is
specifically called Spong as you see
here which basically means a spongy
Limestone I’ll discuss this a little bit
more on either video two or three
we then have our chalky Mal soils that’s
around the subzones the sooro of brel
prio Verio and Gano so you’ll find brown
or Oka clay soils and Oka by the way the
kind of color of Ocha is kind of kind of
like a dullish clay color that you’ll
see in Pottery now we have a lot of
calcium sulfate and we tend to get quite
rich but elegantly tanic structured
wines from these types of
soils we then have Limestone Mars these
are from the higher altitude zones
within the appenines so typically over
300 M these are highly evolved from
Marine origin Sands and Clays from the
mine Epoch little bit in similarity to
our um soils of DOA for example and
you’ll find clay here also with pebbles
and rocks and stones and that’s actually
what you see here it’s not as
brilliantly chalky as you would find
from The Cliffs of DOA or the Normandy
Cliffs which are opposite each other
across the English
Channel okay so that really brings you a
sort of an idea of the location some key
places the general climate
and the geology and great growing in
this
area uh next up we will be talking about
the only docg of the region which is a
white Doc in fact rather controversially
the first White doc of Italy so that is
the Alana
dog if you do have any comments or
questions of course you know what to do
please do comment leave your question
below this video make sure you click
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hear from you about your experiences in
this region maybe you just love going
for Motorsports maybe for the
architecture maybe for the Gastronomy
hospitality and wine but whatever please
do get in touch I’ve been Jimmy Smith
CIA for now goodbye
1 Comment
Wonderful…. Have you had time to visit Modena? Any Lambrusco?