THE GRAPES

The vine in the Colli Piacentini has a very ancient history.
In the Iron Age they were the inhabitants of the pile-dwellings near the Po, after moving to the hilly lands of Veleja, to plant the first vineyards. Several centuries later (4th-2nd century BC) the Gauls brought new viticultural knowledge to the Po Valley, introducing the wooden barrel (instead of terracotta), at the time used mainly for the transport of wine.At the same time, a bronze relic found in the Seventh of Gossolengo in 1877, called the Etruscan Liver, which reproduces a bovine liver and shows some inscriptions enoiche. The Etruscans cultivated the land and produced wine from the vineyards next to the woods. The best-known farmer of the times, Saserna, tells how he used to drink Kilkevetra, the forest wine of the Piacenza Apennines. The Etruscan was not the only population to trample and work the Piacenza soils. The Paleoligures and the Romans also planted vines here. And here the Roman legionaries, the Gauls and the Celts made wine. In all this succession of cultures, the main one, which allowed to set the vineyard production, was the Greek one: the local winegrowers have always cultivated the vine using low forms with carasse (wooden poles to support the plant).
In the Iron Age they were the inhabitants of the pile-dwellings near the Po, after moving to the hilly lands of Veleja, to plant the first vineyards. Several centuries later (4th-2nd century BC) the Gauls brought new viticultural knowledge to the Po Valley, introducing the wooden barrel (instead of terracotta), at the time used mainly for the transport of wine.At the same time, a bronze relic found in the Seventh of Gossolengo in 1877, called the Etruscan Liver, which reproduces a bovine liver and shows some inscriptions enoiche. The Etruscans cultivated the land and produced wine from the vineyards next to the woods. The best-known farmer of the times, Saserna, tells how he used to drink Kilkevetra, the forest wine of the Piacenza Apennines. The Etruscan was not the only population to trample and work the Piacenza soils. The Paleoligures and the Romans also planted vines here. And here the Roman legionaries, the Gauls and the Celts made wine. In all this succession of cultures, the main one, which allowed to set the vineyard production, was the Greek one: the local winegrowers have always cultivated the vine using low forms with carasse (wooden poles to support the plant).

THE HISTORY OF OUR GRAPES

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