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L'Amarone della Valpolicella è un vino rosso passito a DOCG prodotto esclusivamente nella Valpolicella in provincia di Veronal nome di questo rosso veronese strutturato, Amarone, deriva dalla parola “amaro”, adottata per distinguerlo dal dolce del Recioto della Valpolicella da cui ebbe, seppure involontariamente, origine.
Il nuovo epiteto Amarone per indicare il Recioto Amaro o Recioto Secco nasce nella primavera del 1936 nella Cantina Sociale Valpolicella, al tempo con sede presso Villa Mosconi ad Arbizzano di Valpolicella, ad opera del capocantina Adelino Lucchese, palato e fiuto eccezionali che, grazie al fortunato ritrovamento di una botte di recioto dimenticata in cantina e spillando il Recioto Amaro dal fusto di fermentazione, uscì in una esclamazione entusiastica: “Questo non è un Amaro, è un Amarone”. Il capocantina aveva regalato alla Valpolicella la parola magica e il direttore Gaetano Dall’Ora la usò subito in etichetta. La Cantina Sociale di Negrar nell’ingresso attuale ostenta giustamente una lettera di spedizione del 1942 con descrizione di “Fiaschetti di Amarone 1938”. Praticamente il recioto, messo in botte e poi dimenticato, continuò a fermentare fino a diventare secco. Gli zuccheri si sono così trasformati tutti in alcol e hanno fatto perdere la dolcezza al vino, al quale, in contrapposizione a quello che avrebbe dovuto essere, è stato dato il nome di Amarone. Fatta la scoperta, non è che l’Amarone fu subito perfetto. Anzi, a volte veniva fuori per combinazione, per fortuna, ancora dolce ma con un sapore finale di mandorla, magari risultato di una partita di Recioto in cui la fermentazione era sfuggita al controllo del produttore.
Di "vino amaro" si parlava fin dai tempi di Catullo nel Carme n. 27 (49 circa a.C.) reclama “calices amariores” (bicchieri più amari). Ma ben altri documenti ne danno testimonianza.
Cassiodoro, nei primi anni del V secolo, ricerca l’Acinatico della Valpolicella, rosso e bianco per la mensa del re ostrogoto Teodorico: si ritiene che fosse un "recchiotto amaro", scrive G. B. Peres nel 1900, opinione coincidente con quella del Panvinio, che nell’Acinàtico di Cassiodoro riconosce il Rètico di Augusto[2] e del Sarayna (1543) che parla dei vini della Valpolicella "neri, dolci, racenti e maturi".
Tracce della predilezione per questo vino e per le uve che lo producono si ritrova anche nell'Editto di Rotari che stabiliva pene molto severe per chi arrecava danno alle viti e multe salate per chi rubava i grappoli. Per gli anni successivi al 1000 d.C. vi è traccia di alcuni atti d'acquisto e vendita di vigneti nella zona di produzione di "Amarone della Valpolicella", anzi il vino è considerato al pari del denaro per pagare i diritti feudali. Nei secoli successivi prosegue la presenza di "Amarone della Valpolicella" nei documenti ufficiali e negli scritti degli umanisti. Un estimo del 1503 attesta che la zona di produzione di "Amarone della Valpolicella" era una valle ricca e famosa grazie ai suoi vini. Fama che è continuata sino all'epoca illuministica quando Scipione Maffei in un importante testo ha proposto la dizione "amaro" per indicare il vino «d'una grazia particolare prodotto in Valpolicella».
Ma forse più di ogni altro vale il giudizio emesso da assaggiatori francesi a Parigi nel 1845 su una partita di vino "Rosso Austero Costa Calda" di San Vito di Negrar vecchio di 11 anni: "Supremo vino d’Italia... preferibile a diversi Bordeaux ed Hermitage".
Molti altri scrittori e studiosi si sono interessati a questo vino nei secoli successivi per arrivare alle prime analisi organolettiche su questo vino riportate nel bollettino della stazione agraria sperimentale di Verona della fine del 1800. I primi esemplari di bottiglie di "Amarone" senza etichetta arrivarono solo nei primi anni del Novecento per un uso familiare o destinati agli amici.
Per trovare la prima etichetta e il primo documento di vendita dobbiamo arrivare al 1938, ma venne ufficialmente commercializzato a partire dal 1953 da parte della cantina Bolla[3], anno di messa in commercio dell'Amarone fatto per scelta e non per fortuna. Ottenne subito un grande successo, anche se presso un pubblico contenuto di appassionati come era e rimane la produzione di questo vino, che copre il 10% di tutta la produzione dei vini del territorio, dominati dal Valpolicella e dal Valpolicella Superiore, rossi giovani e profumati, spesso da bere subito, freschi e gustosi.
Nel 1968 si è giunti all'approvazione ufficiale del primo disciplinare di produzione e al riconoscimento della DOC. Allo scopo di tutelare l'identità delle diverse tipologie inserite nella denominazione "Valpolicella", "Valpolicella Ripasso", "Recioto della Valpolicella" e "Amarone della Valpolicella", il 24 marzo 2010 sono stati adottati appositi decreti ministeriali con i quali le quattro tipologie sono state rese autonome. Il successo di "Amarone della Valpolicella" ha attraversato indenne i secoli, arrivando fino ad oggi come testimoniato dall'attenzione che continuano a tributargli giornalisti ed esperti di vino, che ne riconoscono la peculiarità inserendolo nelle più importanti guide enologiche come Buoni Vini d'Italia Touring Club, Vini d'Italia Gambero Rosso, Veronelli, Luca Maroni, Espresso, Enogea, Wine Enthusiast.
L'AMARONO DELLA VALPOLICELLA
Amarone della Valpolicella is a red wine raisin wine DOCG [1] produced exclusively in the Valpolicella in the province of Veronal name of this structured red Verona, Amarone, comes from the word "bitter", adopted to distinguish it from the sweet Recioto della Valpolicella from which had, albeit unintentionally, origin.
The new epithet to indicate Recioto Amarone or Recioto Amaro Dry born in the spring of 1936 in the Cantina Sociale Valpolicella, the time based at Villa Mosconi in Arbizzano di Valpolicella, by the capocantina Adelino Lucchese, palate and nose exceptional, thanks to the lucky discovery of a barrel of recioto forgotten in the cellar and spills Recioto Amaro from the stem of fermentation, came out in an exclamation enthusiastic: "This is not a Amaro, is an Amarone". The capocantina had given the Valpolicella the magic word and the director Gaetano Dall'Ora used it immediately on the label. The Cantina Sociale di Negrar current hall flaunts rightly a waybill, 1942 with the description of "Fiaschetti Amarone 1938". Virtually Recioto, put in barrels and then forgotten, continued to ferment until it becomes dry. The sugars are thus transformed into alcohol and all have lost the sweetness to the wine, which, in contrast to what should have been, was given the name of Amarone. It made the discovery, that Amarone was not immediately perfect. Indeed, sometimes it came out for the combination, fortunately, still sweet but with a final taste of almond, perhaps the result of a game in which the fermentation of Recioto had escaped the control of the producer.
Of "bitter wine" was spoken since the time of Catullus in Carme. 27 (about 49 BC) claim "calices amariores" (glasses bitterest). But many other documents bear witness.
Cassiodorus, in the early fifth century, the search Acinatico Valpolicella, red and white for the table of the Ostrogoth king Teodorico: it is believed that it was a "bitter recchiotto" writes GB Peres in 1900, opinion coincides with that of Panvinio, that nell'Acinàtico Cassiodorus recognizes RHAETIC Augustus [2] and the Sarayna (1543) which speaks of the wines of Valpolicella "blacks, sweet, racenti and mature."
Traces of this predilection for wines and grapes that produce it is also found in the Edict of Rotari which established very severe penalties for those adversely affecting the vines and fines for those who stole the grapes. For the years beyond 1000 A.D. There is no trace of any acts of purchase and sale of vineyards in the area of production of "Amarone", indeed the wine is considered to equal the money to pay the feudal rights. In later centuries continues the presence of "Amarone" in official documents and in the writings of humanists. An estimate of 1503 attests that the area of production of "Amarone" was a valley rich and famous thanks to its wines. Fame that continued until the time of the Enlightenment when Scipione Maffei in an important text has proposed the term "bitter" to indicate the wine "of a particular grace produced in Valpolicella."
But perhaps more than any other is the decision taken by the French tasters in Paris in 1845 on a lot "Red Austere Warm Coast" of San Vito di Negrar 11 years old: "Supreme Italian wine ... preferably several Bordeaux and Hermitage. "
Many other writers and scholars are interested in wine in the following centuries to get to the first organoleptic analysis of this wine shows in the bulletin of the agricultural experimental station of Verona at the end of 1800. The first samples of bottles of "Amarone" unlabeled arrived only in the early twentieth century for family use or for friends.
To find the first label and the first sales document we get to 1938, but was officially marketed since 1953 by the winery Bolla [3], year of first marketing Amarone made by choice and not by chance. Immediately met with great success, although at a public content as passionate as it was and remains the production of this wine, which covers 10% of all production of the wines of the area, dominated by the Valpolicella and Valpolicella Superiore, young red and fragrant , often to drink, fresh and tasty.
In 1968 it has come the official approval of the first specification and the recognition of the DOC. In order to protect the identity of the different types included in the name "Valpolicella", "Ripasso", "Recioto della Valpolicella" and "Amarone", 24 March 2010 were adopted special ministerial decrees with which the four types They were made autonomous. The success of "Amarone" has crossed indemnify the centuries, reaching to date as evidenced by the attention that they continue to pay him journalists and wine experts, who recognize the distinction by inserting it in the most important wine guides as Good Wines of Italy Touring Club, Wines of Italy Gambero Rosso, Veronelli, Luca Maroni, Espresso, Enogea, Wine Enthusiast.
Last night I was privileged to attend a lecture by prominent African American educator, advocate and mathematician Freeman Hrabowski III. His appearance was part of a yearly lecture series sponsored by the wife of the late Senator Mark O. Hatfield.
Hrabowski spoke about his journey as a young child in Alabama listening to Dr. Martin Luther King speak, marching for civil rights and being jailed at 12 years old. How his first name stems from the first "free man" born in his family and his last denoting the last name of his families ancestral Polish slave owner Hrabowski. He is now President of one of the most successful research universities in the country, served as the chair for an Obama advisory committee, and speaks around the world about bringing diversity and equality to STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) research. He's a rare mix of supreme intelligence and personality to match.
The lecture and the stats he provided made me think about my trip to South Carolina and my first encounter with that dark part of US history. This photo is of the historic slave cabins that still reside at Boone Plantation in Mt. Pleasant. We heard unfiltered stories about the brutal living conditions, inhumane treatment, and how many slaves didn't even survive the arduous trip to the US. A lot has changed since then, but the systemic problems still exist....even in institutions of higher learning.
Hrabowski ended his lecture with this, "“Watch your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your character, and your character become your destiny!” Inspiring words from an inspiring person.
Image with my Hasselblad 500cm
I saw these tiny daisy-like blooms on a Fall afternoon along the edge of a swampy pond in Orange County, New York.
Surely one of the most alien-looking plants on the planet!
This is in the Temperate House at Kew Gardens.
Painting my kitchen today, "French Blue", which is probably an inappropriate color for a kitchen, but we like it.
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Took this yesterday on the way home but too poorly to upload... Love the way the stems are hanging on here - almost looks like a spider
The Stem of Bacteriophage model: the famous syringe like structure to attach on bacterial cell wall and inject its DNA into bacteria for replication of phage. An artistic piece made of glass to honor the scientist who made the discovery.
Nobel laureate Lecture to celebrate Dr. Sydney Brenner Scientific Voyage at Biopois 2015
Tulips
You stop as soon as you see them, stunned perhaps by their vivid redness or the perfect oval that crowns each stem.
Your fifteen month fingers touch the tips one by one,
with a gentle caress, you raise each closed cup to your lips
until you come to the last, wilting in the sun.
Tear-shaped petals weep away from black insides.
But you kiss her too, looking past her dying glory
to where deeper beauty hides.
- by Sarah James
one of the three (out of 6!) parrot tulips who made it - displayed in one of my all time favourite vases I was given by an English friend, hand pottered by a lady artist in North Devon. I stood it on the wooden handrail outside the house - everything is quite natural and when I took the bloom inside, all the petals fell into our breakfast set-up.... Short lived beauty, but no less precious - if anything, even more!
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