All that was left were two rows of vines yielding table grapes at the Montalto farm in Mercato Saraceno, near Forlì.īut the discovery of these two rows inspired a band of local wine producers with a passion for indigenous grape varieties to experiment with the vines, the wine and to join together to save the variety. Although it was mentioned in tax documents as long ago as 1437, after phylloxera ravaged Europe’s vineyards in the late 19th century it fell into decline and had almost disappeared by 2000. It was ignored because, in 2000, the date of the most recent Italian vineyard census available when Robinson, Harding and Vouillamoz were researching their tome, officially there were no hectares planted with Famoso vines, and while they were writing in 2009-11, there were no commercial wines being made from this ancient grape variety. It’s an odd name for a grape variety that isn’t even a footnote in Wine Grapes. Writer, winemaker and part-time wine-production student with a special interest in Slovenia Chris Boiling visited the region to investigate.įamoso means famous in Italian. This Italian region is not famous for its ancient indigenous grape variety Famoso – which, despite the name, is not famous anywhere. I'm sure that, if we were to republish Wine Grapes today, two years on from the original publication date, it would be the Italian section that would be increased the most – JR.Ģ7 October – Thanks to Tam's articles on Lambrusco and balsamic vinegar from Modena, we are familiar with some of Emilia-Romagna's best-known liquids. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.20 November – We are republishing Chris Boiling's account of the revival of just one of the many grape varieties currently being recuperated in Italy's vineyards as part of our Throwback Thursday series. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content. Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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