The curiosity of this screw are many, here we try to summarize them in order to make you appreciate the quality of our soil and climate of this vine south. We have collected the evidence of well known experts like Dr. Lino Carparelli and Dr. Calo (just google them if interested); we have drawn the conclusion that cultural exchange between regions allowed the migration of a number of vines among which Fiano, so it seems, which migrated from Cava dei Tirreni where Charles II of Anjou ordered some strains to grow in the vineyards of Manfredonia. , On the other hand it seems that Frederick II ordered shipment of of the same grape variety Fiano to the opposite direction from Foggia to Campania a century earlier (both facts are documented in Dr Calo's studies).

The crisis of phylloxera cancelled all trace of the vines, especially the indigenous, but there is information of a particular type of Fiano with aromatic characteristics distinctly grown in Apulia, which in Bitonto area finds its major breeding area.

Over time, this variety was also inserted in the Doc Locorotondo and later was restored from old stumps, and more precisely identified in the well appointed Fiano Minutolo of the Itria Valley, better known as Fiano Aromatic to which Luigi with his Cru inspired.

Always out of curiosity we learnt from the studies of these researchers about the mismatch between Fiano and Greco that is clarified today. What we call Fiano Minutolo or aromatic Fiano is the same plant that elsewhere is called Greco or Aromatic White Greco.

The distinctive element of Fiano di Puglia is therefore just in its aroma more marked towards the best known at the time Fiano di Avellino.

Source: http://www.lavinium.com/italiano/benvenuto_vitigno_misterioso.shtml
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