Storia del contributo italiano alla viticoltura sudafricana dalle origini alla contemporaneità

Abstract

Italians over time have formed a symbiotic relationship with the plant of the vine, with its fruit, the grape and its product, the wine. Exported in the world the skills and quality craftsmanship, the know-how of useful knowledge to the development of winemaking in any place or region of the world, as in South Africa. The great skill matured over the centuries has been a useful tool, a “business card” with which to enter into society and different national contexts other than through an integration and comparison process which contributed to the evolution and modification of the screws viticulture sector of South African food and costumes. This article aims to reconstruct the South African wine-making history through the analysis of the Italian contribution to the development of the sector itself in a long-term perspective that goes from the XVII century to contemporary deepening episodes neglected and free from scientific-academic discussion.

Keywords

• filossera
• italian wine-makers
• South Africa
• Waldensian
• wine
• produttori italiani
• Sudafrica
• Valdesi
• vino