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The newly launched Institute for Wine Culture (ICV) has begun its work by conducting an educational activity, in collaboration with the Center for Integrated Agricultural Training and Experience (CIFE), with students of Enology of that center.

In this course, have carried out a 'tasting Greek. "

Specifically, more than twenty students have traveled to the Archaeological Museum Jerónimo Molina de Jumilla where they have known firsthand the culture of wine in ancient times for it, "First they explained the way of life the different civilizations that have populated the Mediterranean throughout history and what can be witnessed as it passes through Jumilla, helping them to discover for themselves that the consumption of wine and grape cultivation was very important in everyday life Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans and so on down to our day, "as reported by the President of ICV and monitor the course, Emiliano Hernández.

The monitor added that "once had knowledge of this, we have made players and participants in a beautiful ritual since passed: A taste of Greece.

For it has been pouring wine into a replica of what is known as a red-figure Greek Krateros and they have drunk paterillas, ie vessels used by the ancients.

Pour the wine in this Krateros allows rapid oxygenation, while the smell permeates the place and diners should approach her to take the wine in a way that promotes coexistence, "he said Emiliano Hernández.

This course on wine in antiquity had started some days before the visit taking advantage of these same students CIFE the Council of the Designation of Origin Jumilla, which gave them a share of the different tasks undertaken by this organization: Control Quality control of production, marketing and marketing, among others.

For their part, officials of the CIFE has explained that this activity is included as part of the program the school offers students of Enology "and how important it is to teach the development and production techniques as the culture of wine and vine ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla