Page 9 - E-libru (extrait)

Cap. 1 - Per sbuccà in cima, a liana s’arripica à l’arburone...
- O figliò, fideghja la sta vigna nova, cusì bella! L’aghju posta quand’e tu si nata. Avete listess’età ! Hè cresciuta à tempu à tè. Si dice chì a vigna hè una pianta tenace vene à dì, una pianta chì campa parechj’anni. Certi calzi ponu campà cent’anni !
- Ma allora, diventanu tamant’à arburi !
- Innò. U calzu s’allarga, ma ùn scambia l’altura chì ghjè putatu una volta l’annu. Ne arburu, ne arbustu, a vigna hè una liana.
- Cume quelle chì nascenu in le furestone trupicale ?
- Iè. In quelle fureste, e liane s'arripiccanu à l’arburi per sviluppà si. Face cusì a vigna salvatica. Invece, e vigne messe in cultura sò liane ammaestrate, per pudè coglie l’uva. Di l’uva si ne pò assaghjà u fruttu ò u suchju. Dà u suchju, u vignaghjolu leva u mostu chi, fatta a fermentazione, diventerà vinu. U generu prevalente di vigna cultivata (Vitis vinifera) in Auropa è in u mondu sanu hè à l’urigine d’una mansa di vitigni.
Chap.1 -The liana manages to creep up to the top of a large tree whilst relying on it...
-Just look at that young vine, it is magnificent! I planted it in the year of your birth. It is exactly your age. Like you, it grew. It is said that vines are perennial plants since they live for several years. Certain plants can live for over 100 years!
-That means that they become as tall as trees!
No. The vine stock grows, but it remains the same height because it is pruned every year, like what I am doing today. Vines are neither trees nor shrubs...They are creepers.
-Like those that grow in the jungle?
Yes that is right. In the jungle, the creepers depend on trees to climb. This is what is called the wild vines. However, vines that are cultivated by winegrowers are domesticated creepers, so as to harvest the grape that you can appreciate by tasting or drinking the juice. It is from that very juice that the winegrower attains the must that becomes wine after fermentation. The principal species of vines in Europe and in the world (Vitis vinifera) is at the origin of several grape varieties.
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