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TERRE GRECANICHE, LANDS OF WINE

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In Magna Graecia, viticulture was probably introduced by the pelagic populations led by Enotro, around 1650 B C, who indicated the end of the Italian peninsula with the name of Enotria: the land of wine. However, it was not before the Romans that viticulture experienced a powerful increase that lasted until the VI century A.D.
The archaeological remains found on the Ionian coast of Reggio underlie an abundant wine production, suggesting the existence of real commercial chains. . Bottles in special wine amphorae (Keay LII), made locally, the wine of Greek Calabria reached distant Mediterranean destinations during the Late Antique. Particularly in Rome, where Monte Testaccio still preserves many remains of the amphorae produced in the southern Reggio with the specific purpose of exporting wine
The viticulture vocation, known in the V century A.D. also to Flavius the Great Aurelio Cassiodoro, finds evidence in the considerable number of early medieval Palmenti. The latter dug into the rock, are particularly diffuse in the Ferruzzano area and were used until recently. The typical Palmento consisted of two tanks dug into the sandstone, an upper one (buttรฌscu) and a lower one (pinร ci), communicating through a hole. The grapes poured into the buttรฌscu, whose hole was filled with clay, was pressed with the feet and left to rest for a day and a night. Then, once the cork was removed, the must be allowed to flow into the pinร ci.