{"product_id":"garelli-del-miglior-modo-di-fare-i-1869","title":"Del miglior modo di fare i vini comuni","description":"\u003cp\u003e1869 Third Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 8vo. Pp. [1] f.e. 86, [2], [1], r.e.\u003cbr\u003e\nTorino (Turin)\u003cbr\u003e\nEnrico Moreno Editore dei Libri per le Scuole Rurali\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e19th century half-cloth binding; printed paper label to the spine that appears to be taken from the original wrappers. Ex-libris Friedrich von Bassermann-Jordan (1872-1959), German wine estate owner, viticultural pioneer, and the most influential wine historian of his era, author of Geschichte des Weinbaus, which is the wine library of record for German viticultural history. Ink stamp to the title page with same provenance. Pronounced toning at the title page, otherwise in very good codfition. Very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThird edition of a gold-medal manual for improving common Italian wines, issued by Enrico Moreno, Turin publisher of books for rural schools. The work originated as a memoir submitted to the Enological Congress of Mondovì in September 1868, where it was awarded a gold medal. It was first published through the local agricultural society and then taken up by the Turin publisher Enrico Moreno. It was apparently remarkably successful: three editions appeared within less than a year. In fact, Garelli writes as a practical agricultural reformer, directing technical instruction toward the schoolteacher, smallholder, and provincial producer rather than the estate enologist. The commercial premise is plain: ordinary wine could not become a dependable rural product unless its making was brought under teachable rules. The book belongs to the post-unification program of agricultural education, when the new Italian state treated rural technique as part of national consolidation and commercial modernization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is a schoolroom guide to cellar reform in the first decade of unified Italy, cast as the \"Veglie del Signor Lorenzo\" (\"Evening Lessons of Signor Lorenzo\"), a series of conversations in which an experienced winemaker instructs his friends. The preface\"opens with Carlo Ridolfi's principle that good wine begins with soil, sun, and the quality of the vine, but depends equally on careful cultivation, a diligent harvest, and regular vinification. Garelli then identifies the problem his book means to correct: science has moved forward while practice has stood still.\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Veglia Prima\" (\"First Evening\") begins in the vineyard, moving through the harvest, pruning, \"svettatura\" (topping the shoots), \"spampanatura\" (leaf removal), cultivation between the rows, and even precautions against theft in the fields. At its center is the \"gleucometro\" (must sugar meter), used to determine the proper moment for harvest. It becomes a small emblem of Garelli's whole program of reform: ripeness, traditionally judged by the inherited eye and palate of the grower, can now be measured in the must.\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Veglia Seconda\" and \"Veglia Terza\" (\"Second Evening\" and \"Third\") follow the grapes into the cellar: mechanical crushing, additions of sugar, cooked must, and alcohol; the timing of \"svinatura\" drawing the new wine off the skins); open versus closed vats; and comparisons with practices in Lorraine and Burgundy. Fermentation is discussed through the work of Ladrey and Guyot and condensed into the memorable maxim, \"il vino si forma nei tini e si migliora nelle botti\" (\"wine is formed in the vats and improved in the casks\").\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA little book with a big ambition: to drag everyday Italian winemaking into the modern age. We like Garelli's faith in measurement, with the gleucometer replacing the practiced eye, but even more the way he delivers all this modernity through old-fashioned evening conversations among friends. Science moves forward; Signor Lorenzo explains it after dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"La Fenice Antiquaria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49385893036267,"sku":"164-1869--250.00-81.00-2026","price":250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/2000\/5611\/files\/00164_IMG_8919.jpg?v=1788991956","url":"https:\/\/fenicebooks.com\/products\/garelli-del-miglior-modo-di-fare-i-1869","provider":"La Fenice Antiquaria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}