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| Aglianico (pronounced
[aʎˈʎaniko], roughly "ah-LYAH-nee-koe") is a black grape grown in
the Campania and Basilicata regions of Italy.
The vine originated in Greece and was brought to
Campania by Greek settlers. The name may be a corruption of Vitis
hellenica, Latin for "Greek vine".
Another etymology derives the name Aglianico
from a corruption of Apulianicum, the Latin adjective which
indicates the whole of southern Italy in the Roman age.
In early Roman times, it was the principal grape
of the famous Falernian wine which was the Roman equivalent of a
First Growth wine today. |
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| History
Ruins from the Greek settlement of Cumae.
The vine was believed to have first been cultivated in Greece by
the Phoceans from an ancestral vine that ampelographers have not
yet identified. From Greece it was brought to Italy by settlers to
Cumae near modern day Pozzuoli, and from there spread to various
points in the regions of Campania and Basilicata. While it is
still grown in Italy, the original Greek plantings seem to have
disappeared. In Ancient Rome the grape was the principal component
of the world's earliest First Growth wine, Falernian. Along with a
white grape known as Greco (today grown as Greco di Tufo), the
grape was commented on by Pliny the Elder, the maker of some of
the highest-ranked wines in Roman times.
Traces of the vine have been found in Molise, Puglia and on the
island of Procida near Naples, though it is no longer widely
cultivated in those places. The grape was called Ellenico (the
Italian word for "Greek") till the 15th century when it got its
current name Aglianico. |
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