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Yesterday, the classroom culture of Caja Murcia hosted a new conference within the cultural week being developed by the Federation of Peñas the Harvest Festival, in collaboration with the ICV.
In this case, the talk was hosted by the winemaker Francisco Pardo and was on 'The Technique of Wine throughout history. "
The conference will present data collected from multiple sources about how to make the wine, with a vast collection of images of works of art.
Structured in three parts, the first dealt with the influence of varieties and growing as the type of wine and its quality, where surprisingly there are reports that the wine was a fairly developed since ancient times, Egyptian wine known as pruning, irrigation, trellis or driving subscriber techniques, techniques that were refined over the Greeks and Romans, it is noteworthy that there has always been a clear conscience on the grapes of varying quality, and valued and knew a lot of varieties, up to 200 named Roman writers, the trend changed with the arrival of phylloxera, which destroyed the vineyards and took away many varieties.
The second part was devoted to the art of winemaking itself, which unlike the wine the data are scarce, how to make wine from the wine's origin in the civilizations of the Middle East until the eighteenth century has been the same , stomp the grapes and separating the juice, pressing the remains of grapes and ferment, mysterious process not known until the middle of the century
XVIII because Pasteur studies, so the wine is a very recent science and the advances in winemaking have been done only in the last century.
It is interesting to note the relationship between difficult to obtain colored wine in ancient times, with offerings to the gods, replacing or absorbing the liquid red blood source and symbol of life for many civilizations.
The third part is devoted to methods of preservation of the wines, a factor to take into account and that due to lack of resources and know the wines were a perishable product and quickly put ill, to improve this situation were used in old techniques of basking and raisin grapes to wines with higher alcohol content, so the most famous wines were the ones who put up with longer healthy, those with a higher degree, the addition of alcohol in wine led to conserve resulted in the appearance of existing fortified wines.
To end it showed images of various works of art where they see high officials and senior characters drinking wine, unequivocal proof of the importance it has always had and the value of wine is much more than a drink, social, religious , economic, artistic definitely a world surrounded by a great culture.
Activities continue this afternoon with a Lecture and Roundtable Discussion on the evolution of the Harvest Festival in its 39 year existence and will feature the participation of various presidents of the Federation of Peñas.
Will be at 20:30.
On Friday 18 June at 20:30 there will be the Parade Posters Children presents awards.
This act, as well as lectures and panel discussion will take place in the classroom culture of Caja Murcia.
Activities will be closed on Saturday June 19 with a visit to the Wine Museum of Bullas and a winery in this town of Murcia.
Those interested in attending this visit should confirm their attendance by 16 June.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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