Em 1875, teve início um grande fluxo imigratório de italianos para o Brasil com assentamentos desde o Espírito Santo até o Rio Grande do Sul que se destinava a substituir a mão-de-obra escrava nos cafezais, a suprir trabalho nas minas de carvão e a colonizar terras no Paraná e Rio Grande do Sul.
O imigrante italiano que se destinou à Serra Gaúcha (RS) enfrentou mata virgem e não encontrou senão terra para ser desmatada e preparada para lavouras de subsistência. Com os alemães dos sopés da Serra Gaúcha foram obtidas mudas da híbrida americana Isabel que se difundiu espetacularmente em praticamente todos os lotes coloniais dos italianos. No início da década de 1880 já se produziam vinhos rúticos nos lotes de cada imigrante.
Bento Gonçalves na última década de 1.800
As primeiras adegas foram instaladas nos quinze últimos anos do século XIX e decretaram o predomínio marcante da casta Isabel, pela sua facilidade de cultivo e pela produtividade exorbitante em termos de vinhos. Vinhos que, diga-se de passagem, apresentavam qualidade nada mais do que minimamente aceitáveis.
O crescimento da vitivinicultura brasileira nos estados do Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo e Minas Gerais baseou-se nas híbridas americanas e consolidou a imagem do vinho brasileiro como um produto inferior.
(3/10) ITALIANS CREATE BRAZILIAN WINE
In 1875, there began a large influx of Italian immigration to Brazil with settlements ranging from Espírito Santo to Rio Grande do Sul, which was intended to replace the slave labor on coffee plantations, to supply labor in coal mines and to colonize land in Parana and Rio Grande do Sul
The Italian immigrant who was destined to Serra Gaucha (State of Rio Grande do Sul), only faced virgin forest and found no prepared ground for subsistence crops. With the Germans immigrants on the foothills of the Serra Gaucha branchs of American hybrid vine Izabella were obtained. So that Isabel has spread dramatically in almost every batch of Italian immigrants. In the early 1880's sharp to taste wines were already produced by each of Italian immigrants.
The first cellars were installed in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century and has enacted a marked predominance of vine Isabel, for its ease of cultivation and exorbitant productivity in terms of wines. Wines which, by the way, had no more quality than minimally acceptable.
The growth of viticulture in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Parana, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais was based on the American hybrid and cemented the image of Brazilian wine as an inferior product.
The Italian immigrant who was destined to Serra Gaucha (State of Rio Grande do Sul), only faced virgin forest and found no prepared ground for subsistence crops. With the Germans immigrants on the foothills of the Serra Gaucha branchs of American hybrid vine Izabella were obtained. So that Isabel has spread dramatically in almost every batch of Italian immigrants. In the early 1880's sharp to taste wines were already produced by each of Italian immigrants.
The first cellars were installed in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century and has enacted a marked predominance of vine Isabel, for its ease of cultivation and exorbitant productivity in terms of wines. Wines which, by the way, had no more quality than minimally acceptable.
The growth of viticulture in the Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Parana, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais was based on the American hybrid and cemented the image of Brazilian wine as an inferior product.
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