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List Of Viticulturists
Viticulture is the science, production, and study of grapes. This is a list of notable viticulturists: A *John Adlum, American viticulturist who was the first to cultivate the Catawba grape *Mary Anderson (inventor), Mary Anderson, American female real estate developer, rancher, and viticulturist *Fabio Asquini, Italian economist and winemaker B *Bo Barrett, American male winemaker of Chateau Montelena and son of Jim Barrett (winemaker), Jim Barrett *Heidi Barrett, American winemaker and entrepreneur known for California's cult wines, also wife of Bo Barrett *Jim Barrett (winemaker), American winemaker and former owner of Chateau Montelena *Helmut Becker, German viticulturist and former chief of the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute *Andy Beckstoffer, California vineyard owner *Eleanor Berwick, English wine grower in Suffolk *Heinrich Birk, German viticulturist and former chief of the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute *Jean-Charles Boisset, French winemaker and the proprietor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Adlum
John Adlum (April 29, 1759 – March 14, 1836) was a pioneering American viticulturalist who was the first to cultivate the Catawba grape. He is known as "the father of American viticulture" (grape-growing). He also served in the American Revolutionary War; was a well-known surveyor; was one of the first associate judges in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania; and served in the United States Army in the War of 1812. Early life and military career Adlum was born on April 29, 1759, in York, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Catherine (Abbott) Adlum. His father was the sheriff and coroner for York County, and Adlum was raised in York. His paternal family was of Scots-Irish descent, while maternally he was of English descent. He was 15 years old when the American Revolutionary War broke out, but nonetheless organized a company of fellow teenagers from York County to help prosecute the war. Most of these fought with the Pennsylvania Blues, a volunteer state militia group. But Adlum led the rest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Bragato
Alessandro Romeo Bragato (1859–1913) played a significant role in the development of the wine industry in Australia and New Zealand. Early life and career Romeo Bragato was born fourth in a family of ten children to Giuseppe and Paolina Bragato on 26 February 1859 in the harbor town of Lussinpiccolo now Mali Lošinj on the Adriatic island of Lussin (now Lošinj). At that time it was part of the Austrian Empire but is now part of Croatia. His mother Paolina (née Depangher) was Austrian from Vienna. Bragato's early education was at Pirano (Piran) south of Trieste on Istria and at a technical school there. According to his family, Bragato then trained as an architect in Vienna and from 1879 to 1883 attended the Regia Scuola di Viticoltura ed Enelogia in Conegliano in the heart of the Veneto wine region. Bragato graduated in 1883 and returned to Lussinpiccolo where for a year he was an oenologist at the Provincial Association of Agriculture and later from 1 January 1885 until 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolt Of The Languedoc Winegrowers
The Revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers was a mass movement in 1907 in Languedoc and the Pyrénées-Orientales of France that was repressed by the government of Georges Clemenceau. It was caused by a serious crisis in winemaking at the start of the 20th century. The movement was also called the "paupers revolt" of the Midi. It was marked by the fraternization of the 17th line infantry regiment with the demonstrators in Béziers. Languedoc vineyards before the 1907 crisis Mass viticulture Wine making in Languedoc developed in the 18th century with the construction of the port of Sète and completion of the Canal du Midi. Wine, for which the preservation techniques had been improved, could be transported to new markets. The vineyards were extended and on the eve of the French Revolution about half the land around Béziers was covered with vines. In 1853 railway lines began to serve Languedoc, which opened new markets to regional viticulture, particularly in the north of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Ferroul
Ernest Joseph Antoine Ferroul (13 December 1853 – 29 December 1921) was a French physician and politician. He held extreme left political views. He was twice a deputy for the southern department of Aude between 1888 and 1902, was first elected mayor of Narbonne in 1891 and held that office from 1903 until his death. He is known as one of the leaders of the successful 1907 revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers, in which up to 800,000 vineyard smallholders and workers demonstrated to demand government action to end unfair competition. Early years (1853–1888) Ernest Joseph Antoine Ferroul, also known as "Lo Pelut", was born in Mas-Cabardès, Aude, on 13 December 1853. He became a physician and a socialist. He was a great defender of viticulture. He studied medicine at the University of Montpellier and received his doctorate. He contributed to the socialist newspapers in provincial cities such as Lyon, Marseille and Narbonne. He was director of ''La République sociale'' in Narbonne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Fanucchi
Peter Fanucchi is a Californian winegrower in the Russian River Valley AVA. His winery, Fanucchi Vineyards began using grapes from a plot of land bought by his father in 1972. Already planted with planted at the end of the 19th century Zinfandel, Fanucchi's father originally wanted to pull it out but Fanucchi retrained the vines and for nearly a decade it went into White Zinfandel for. In 1992, he started his own commercial brand and began producing red Zinfandel wine. He also produces white wine made from the Trousseau Gris ''Trousseau Gris'' is a French grape variety made into white wine. It is occasionally found in eastern France and was once widely grown in California under the name ''Gray Riesling''. In cool climates it can produce fresh aromatic wines. It nee ... grape which after his father died in 1984, and at the same time as he was personally farming and restoring the zinfandel field, Peter finished bringing into production. In 2010 Fanucchi farmed the last known blo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count De Salis-Soglio
John Bernard Philip Humbert de Salis, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio, Switzerland, Soglio, Territorial Decoration, TD, ''John da Buri'', Graf v. Salis-Soglio, (London, 16 November 1947-Cà Buri, Mezzane di Sotto, Veneto, Italy 14 March 2014); Holy Roman Empire, SRI Comes, ''Illustris et Magnificus'', was a Count de Salis-Soglio. He was a International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC delegate and envoy; Knight Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion (2000) of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (knight, 1974), and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Order of Malta with Swords, first ambassador of the Order to Thailand 1986–98, Cambodia 1993–98, president of its Swiss Association (1995-2000) and of CIOMAL (Comité International de l'Ordre de Malte), 2000–08; British soldier and lawyer; Valpolicella vigneron and hereditary Knight of the Golden Spur (HRE), Knight of the Golden Spur. Life An Imperial Count of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsgraf), (created by letters pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
