| History |
The cultivation of the vine was already practiced centuries before the birth of Christ, from the first Celtic, Gallic, and Cisalpine populations that populated northern Italy before the domination of ancient Rome, as evidenced by numerous fossil finds of grapevines and roots in the area. With the Roman conquest, the cultivation and commercialization of the Piacentini wines was much more extensive and developed, as evidenced by numerous Latin documents, including a quotation from the Senate of Rome, originated in a political dispute between Marco Tullio Cicero and Lucio Calpurnio Pisone, native to Piacenza. The development and trade of Piacenza wines also reached France in 1200, and in 1391, in the "corpus" of the ancient statutes of the municipality of Piacenza, the first severe rules were laid down against wine fraud. |
| Ampelographic features |
Leaf: large, slightly rhinoplasty, trilobata but sometimes pentalobata, wide open U-shaped breast, almost graffed; Deep upper lateral breasts, tend to close; Lower side breasts just mentioned; Corner at the top of the median lobe, obtuse; Lobes folded to the edge, quite marked (often the leaf has four lobes); Wavy flap; Upper page light green, opaque, a bit bulletproof; Bottom wicker bottom, green gray; Flashy ribs, rose-colored, turbulent; Fairly pronounced teeth, with convex margins, broad-based, mucronate.
Bunch: Large (18-20 cm long), cylindrical-conical, often with a wing, elongated, very compact; Peduncle visible, half-legged; Pedicels very thin, short, green; Evident, green-brown look; Short brush, yellowish green.
Acino: medium, spheroid; Peel of greenish, slightly dotted, pry-like, barky, astringent, with persistent navel; Juicy flesh, simple flavor. |