“Sometimes I stop myself thinking, in front of a robust and good glass of wine, about the history that breathes behind this nectar…..” An excerpt from the last of three documentaries on the Etruscans and ancient Italy, after “Lo Sport nell’antico” and “La Donna si fa Bella” this video introduces us to the first steps of wine culture in ancient Italy. …… Raniero Mengarelli, in a letter to a colleague, recounts his theory which proposes knowledge of vine cultivation techniques and wine production even before imports from the East. “………That it was not the Etruscans who introduced wine in Italy is a common thought but it is equally certain that ………….” The video published in 2008 by the Didactic and Visual Promotion Laboratory of the Superintendency for the Archaeological Heritage of Southern Etruria and distributed by Historia Association for the dissemination of Cultural Heritage. Directed by Maurizio Pellegrini
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