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Una breve storia del vino

A Brief History of Wine

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Giancarlo

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Manuela

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Most of red wines it ferments with the skins, and over time it takes colour __________
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they reduce chemical treatments, they plant cover crops between the rows and they support __________ insects, more birds, healthier soil.
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_______ it is low, the light it becomes golden, and the vines they seem almost endless.
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At the Cape, in South Africa, the vines they were planted _______ under Dutch guidance, and the documents they record the first wine of the Cape pressed on 2 February 1659.
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Many _____ white ferment cooler to keep aromas of fruit more lively.
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In the 1860s, Louis Pasteur he studied __________ of the wine and the problems of fermentation.
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Bottling __________ closing a door: it seals the wine, so it can travel, rest and be opened later—at the table, with people.
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the people understood it long before _______ gave a name to all this.
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__________ often they kept notes on vines, yields and cellar routines.
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They look for signs that __________ it is well: bubbles steady, aromas clean and a drop gradual of the sugar.
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The producers they choose the method based __________ that they have in front of them.
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Then the producer __________ a second fermentation.
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the taste ______ stronger.
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In California, the wine ________ with the missions and with necessity.
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__________ it becomes softer.
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In red wine, the skins they rise and they form ________
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The yeast it eats the sugar and it produces _____ alcohol and carbon dioxide—but this time the space it is closed.
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But inside there is something that it waits: sugar, acidity, _____ and scent.
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they were planted near Sydney, and the first results _________ uncertain.
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_____ it arrives the aging.
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A gentle pressing usually it gives ________ cleaner than a strong and fast pressing.
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The bubbles they change also the feeling in the mouth: it seems lighter, _______ and more lively on the tongue.
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And the big surprise: it did not rot, as usual does __________
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________ it served for communion, but it served also in everyday life.
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_________ it integrates.
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