https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italyen-USTelligent Community 13https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italyTue, 06 Jan 2026 22:49:06 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsCurrent Revision posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 1/6/2026 10:49:06 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/79Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:02:39 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Jonathan Eichholzhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 79 posted to Expert Guides by Jonathan Eichholz on 11/12/2025 5:02:39 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/78Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:01:42 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Jonathan Eichholzhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 78 posted to Expert Guides by Jonathan Eichholz on 7/26/2025 2:01:42 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/77Tue, 28 Jan 2025 22:47:46 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Jonathan Eichholzhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 77 posted to Expert Guides by Jonathan Eichholz on 1/28/2025 10:47:46 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert, Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/76Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:22:36 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532GuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 76 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 6/18/2024 3:22:36 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert, Preview</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/75Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:12:11 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532GuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 75 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 4/18/2024 3:12:11 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/74Tue, 09 Jan 2024 04:28:13 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Sandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 74 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 1/9/2024 4:28:13 AM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/73Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:57:42 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532GuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 73 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 12/4/2023 10:57:42 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> Click to enlarge</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/72Mon, 04 Dec 2023 22:56:44 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532GuildSomm Adminhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 72 posted to Expert Guides by GuildSomm Admin on 12/4/2023 10:56:44 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <div class="featured-aside-image"><img class="image-bordered" alt="Caption Text Goes Here" src="/resized-image/__size/0x1600/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-01-48/Southern-Italy-Region-Map.jpg" /> \</div> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/71Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:12:20 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Sandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 71 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 12/4/2023 9:12:20 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/70Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:58:24 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Sandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 70 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 12/4/2023 8:58:24 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/69Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:24:57 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Sandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 69 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 12/4/2023 6:24:57 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/68Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:01:13 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Sandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 68 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 12/4/2023 6:01:13 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/67Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:50:23 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Sandra Banhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 67 posted to Expert Guides by Sandra Ban on 12/4/2023 5:50:23 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/66Fri, 10 Nov 2023 00:09:20 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 66 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 11/10/2023 12:09:20 AM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/65Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:50:04 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 65 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 11/9/2023 10:50:04 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/64Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:48:58 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 64 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 11/9/2023 10:48:58 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/63Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:29:58 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 63 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 11/9/2023 10:29:58 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/62Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:19:01 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 62 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 11/9/2023 10:19:01 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/61Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:51:04 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 61 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 11/9/2023 9:51:04 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div> https://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy/revision/60Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:45:55 GMT8277e151-5ba9-4335-93f0-6f497ffb8dc4:100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532Stacy Ladenburgerhttps://www.guildsomm.com/research/expert_guides/w/expert-guides/2647/italy-part-iv-southern-italy#commentsRevision 60 posted to Expert Guides by Stacy Ladenburger on 11/9/2023 9:45:55 PM<br /> <div class="paywall-restricted"><div class="style_box"> Contents <ol> <li>The Grapes and Grape Families of Southern Italy</li> <li>Abruzzo</li> <li>Molise</li> <li>Puglia</li> <li>Campania</li> <li>Basilicata</li> <li>Calabria</li> <li>Sicily</li> <li>Sardinia</li> <li>Bibliography</li> </ol> </div> <p style="text-align:justify;">Southern Italy is more agrarian and less industrialized than the northern portion of the country, and it has been slower to develop infrastructure. Farther from the rest of Europe&mdash;geographically as well as culturally&mdash;it is also more isolated by mountains and seas. Although it is home to large cities, such as Naples and Palermo, and popular tourist destinations, such as the Amalfi Coast, the south has more poverty than, and over double the unemployment rate of, the rest of Italy. Some of its regions are not widely known outside the country, except perhaps to descendants of Italian immigrants who left those regions seeking opportunity.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">During the unification of Italy in the 19^th century, the Risorgimento government was largely composed of northerners. The south was hurt by heavy taxation, high protective tariffs on northern industrial goods, and a mandatory seven years of military service, which had a particularly significant impact on the farm labor force in rural areas. As late as 1900, the illiteracy rate in southern Italy was 70%, 10 times higher than that of England, France, or Germany. More than four million Italians&mdash;over 10% of the national population&mdash;immigrated to the United States between 1880 and 1924, most of them from the rural south and the island of Sicily.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">Yet despite its hardships, southern Italy has a long and rich history with viticulture and was likely one of the world&rsquo;s earliest centers of vine domestication, after the Caucuses, Levant, and eastern Mediterranean. A 2017 archeological discovery of wine residue in terra-cotta jars inside a cave at Monte Kronio, in southwestern Sicily, suggests that winemaking in this area goes back 6,000 years.</p> <p style="text-align:justify;">The arrival of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks led to the expansion of vine cultivation. The Greeks reached southern Italy in the eighth</p></div><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.restricted', { contentId: '100dcb47-9d85-4f8b-8959-ee0d3d5a7532' }); }); }); </script><script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.subscribe('paywall.ready', function (data) { jQuery.telligent.evolution.messaging.publish('paywall.displayPopup', { }); }); }); </script><div style="clear:both;"></div> <div style="font-size: 90%;">Tags: Southern Italy-Expert</div>