Celtic wine from Italy

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Apr 19th 2006 @ 1:05PM

An Italian wine producer has gone back to his Celtic roots and produced a wine using their techniques.

Yep, it is not all Roman down Italy way. The northern regions have discovered their Celtic tribal heritage, known as 'Barbari' to the Romans with two men taking it to the extreme by recreating a wine using wine making techiniques described by Roman historian Columella, in De Re Rustica: it is called "Arbustum Gallicum". They have built a replica Celtic farm to produce their wine using growing methods that would have been familiar to the locals 2500 years ago.

The wine Uinom Laevum is described as having "a rich taste with a strong herbal note and an unusual sandy after-taste" which doesn't really sell itself to me. The company plans to sell 300 liters of the 2004 vintage this year and 500 liters of the 2005 production next year for around 150 Euros (US$185). It will be bottled in ceramic vases of an ancient Celtic design according to archaeological relics in the Museums of Gambolò and Vigevano

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