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Love, Math, and Brunello di Montalcino

2021; University of California Press; Volume: 21; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.111

1533-8622

Maria Finn,

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Research Article| May 01 2021 Love, Math, and Brunello di Montalcino Maria Finn Maria Finn Maria Finn is an author, chef, and transmedia storyteller. She is a Design Science Studio fellow, where she is creating augmented reality menus embedded with Buckminster Fuller’s ideas of living systems. She is also working on a narrative book about truffles in North America and their role in forest ecology. www.mariafinn.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Gastronomica (2021) 21 (2): 111–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.111 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Maria Finn; Love, Math, and Brunello di Montalcino. Gastronomica 1 May 2021; 21 (2): 111–115. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2021.21.2.111 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentGastronomica Search Under a cloudless cerulean sky, grids of Sangiovese grape vines grow between rocks that pock the red clay ground. This is the view—vineyards and sky—from the Ruffino winery where their Brunello di Montalcino is grown and barreled. Travelers to the town of Montalcino, Italy and the area that surrounds it don’t come for religion or art; they make the pilgrimage for the rarified Brunello wine. The vineyard manager states that this wine’s appeal starts in the field. “To be certified DOCG [Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita—the strictest regulation possible in Italy], Brunello must be made of 100 percent Sangiovese grapes,” he says. “They have to be dry-farmed rather than irrigated, as excess water can bloat grapes and dilute their characteristics.” He goes on to explain that when roots have to grow deeper into the earth to... © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California2021 You do not currently have access to this content.