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Between
500 and 1400 metres altitude, one can find marked areas for wine
making and the vineyards which represent the oenology of Etna.
It is exactly in these vineyards that one can find the oldest Controlled
Original and Named Sicilian Wines (D.O.C.), established in 1968.
But the connection between the volcano and wine goes back to ancient
times: findings of vine roots on Etna
takes us back to the end of the Neolithic Age and the beginning
of the Metal Age, that is, about 4 or 5 millennium ago.
Probably this was a wild vine, which was then cultivated following
the arrival of the Mediterranean population who settled on the island.
In fact, we owe the Phoenicians and later the Greeks for the introduction
of the new systems of cultivation and production of wine, which
was then commercialized throughout the Mediterranean. |
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