Intro to wine etiquette

: January 12 2024

Wine is culture, we know.

In recent years there have been requests for information and news regarding the divine drink from every corner of the planet by foreigners above all, but also by new generation Italians who are much more attentive to the quality of life.

The appreciation of wine is certainly a reconquest of a known territory, even if perhaps only sketched by previous generations.

In fact, it is well known that in ancient times wine, especially red wine, was the only widely consumed alternative to water, which was often of poor quality in some desert areas.

We are talking about ancient civilizations, Egyptian, Middle Eastern, well before the discovery of beer (in fact the sources are conflicting) in any case wine may have been discovered by chance in the bottom of the jars where grapes were stored, a spontaneous plant in many cases, while the same cannot be said for beer. In fact the production of beer presupposes a harvest of cereals, fermentation and the addition of yeasts that chance would certainly not have made available. However, we are talking about 7/8 thousand years ago, so there are no certainties on how wine started to be produced but only theories.

Over the centuries, especially during the last century, the 1900s, thanks to the industrial production of soft drinks, the consumption of good quality wines reached a stalemate, especially in some nations that culturally drank and still drink much more beer.

Wine was rarely used, except on a few occasions. It was only thanks to the more accessible culture of travel, the greater free time, the search for refinement, the more wine has become widely appreciated.

Wine is an indispensable complement to every table in every latitude.

The modern attention to food, combination of recipes, cooking methods, new flavours and aromas have made the attention to wine much higher that in the past times and nowadays the pairing of a wine to food is a must do on each table.