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Una breve storia del vino e come si produce

(A Brief History of Wine and How It’s Made)

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The wine it became a product that it could move, be measured and sold—again __________
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For this reason __________ they keep it wet: they push it down or they pump juice over.
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The producers they choose the method based __________ that they have in front of them.
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First you make a base wine—just like __________
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the people understood it __________ science gave a name to all this.
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_____ glass bottles.
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Often there is _____ a second quiet change, especially in many red wines:
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In France, the phylloxera ______ recorded in 1863 and it spread quickly.
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Finally, ________ it gets ready for bottling.
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_________ in Armenia, a winery in a cave goes back to about 4100–4000 BC.
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______ technology of wine, already then.
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Then __________ the aging.
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_____ it spread faster than the solutions.
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Bottling it is like closing a door: it seals the wine, so ______ travel, rest and be opened later—at the table, with people.
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you imagine to be on holiday _________
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The wine _________ in the world.
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this part _____ it is softer and more elegant.
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This means that Italy it is not _____ “a wine style.”
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With time and care, that fruit “normal” it becomes something that people they keep for birthdays, dinners, __________ even for any evening.
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________ it showed hospitality and, sometimes, religion.
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the producers they check the wine __________
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__________ the buds they open and the shoots they grow quickly.
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he adds a little of yeast __________ of sugar.
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__________ also aromatic molecules—very few, but with a big effect.
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