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Una breve storia del vino

A Brief History of Wine

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Andy Andy Standard
Andy

Andy

Italian mature, expressive speaker with warm tones and shades

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Violetta

Violetta

A warm, clear, and engaging voice with a smooth, natural tone

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Giancarlo

Giancarlo

Italian middle aged, warm voice

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Manuela

Manuela

Warm, clear and versatile Italian voice

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This is the secret: the bubbles they are gas from fermentation ________
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_____ it arrives a routine calm but serious.
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__________ someone crushed the grapes, kept the juice and waited.
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The Spanish missionaries they planted vines at the __________ in 1769.
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_____ wines red ferment warmer to build color, structure and texture deeper.
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The country it goes __________ to the sunny islands.
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To understand how you make _________ you imagine a whole year in the vineyard.
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the smell ________
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Those notes they helped to preserve __________ in the chaos.
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__________
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_______ a little of yeast and a little of sugar.
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__________ they become small berries of grapes.
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_____ early evening.
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It went beyond __________ and the hills.
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this part often it is ______ and more elegant.
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_________ it is a perfect example of how the place it gives form to the wine.
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they do __________ remove the leaves, remove the rotten parts, remove the damaged bunches.
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in this chapter __________
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________ it stayed also practical—used for meals, as medicine and for religious communion.
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For this reason the producers they keep it wet: __________ down or they pump juice over.
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It is __________ in one single country.
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In red wine, _________ they rise and they form a “cap”.
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step by step, you will learn how __________ the wine—and you will do practice of Italian while you read.
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But the planting it began a long story: failures, study, adaptation and, in the end, _____ of the place.
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If the cap it dries, ______ create problems and make it lose color and aroma.
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