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Una breve storia del vino

A Brief History of Wine

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Manuela Manuela 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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The wine it stayed also practicalā€”used __________ as medicine and for religious communion.
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It is __________
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__________
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And Italy it is a perfect example of how the place __________ to the wine.
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In red wine, the skins _________ and they form a ā€œcapā€.
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__________ the wine it began with the missions and with necessity.
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Just ______ on the vine, with nothing dramatic.
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For this reason the producers they keep it wet: they push it down or they pump _____ over.
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Sparkling wine it adds a trick extra: it traps _______ to make the bubbles.
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If you pick early, the wine it can be acidic, _____ or ā€œgreen.ā€
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Because the people __________ they built vineyards, presses and cellars.
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With time and care, that fruit ā€œnormalā€ it becomes something _____ people they keep for birthdays, dinners, long conversationsā€”or even for any evening.
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the producers ________ combine free-run wine and press wine, or keep them separate and decide later.
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Finally, the wine __________ for bottling.
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_____ it arrives a routine calm but serious.
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_________ planted near Sydney, and the first results they were uncertain.
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they keep the grapes safe and clean, so the right microbes they can _____
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If the cap _________ it can create problems and make it lose color and aroma.
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This means that Italy it is not _____ ā€œa wine style.ā€
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it is the moment when _________ of grapes it stops to be ā€œjust juiceā€ and it starts to become wine.
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The container it was not _____ a container.
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_____ means that people did not drink only grape juiceā€”it fermented on purpose.
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They taste it, __________ and they measure it.
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This is __________ the bubbles they are gas from fermentation trapped.
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the flowers __________ small berries of grapes.
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