The Mesopotamio wine of Kamarina,
produced near the Sicilian south-eastern city of Ragusa, was
presented Sunday at the Italian pavilion at the Milan Expo 2015
world's fair.
Many historians believe the wine was originally produced in
the 4th century BC in an area then called Kamarina and became
popular in the 1st century AD in Carthage and Pompeii, where it
could have been served to Pliny in the days prior to the
eruption of the Vesuvius in 79.
Studying a number of documents has enabled us to
demonstrate that this wine was produced in the Greek and Roman
periods in the area of Kamarina, said the director of the museum
of Kamarina, Giovanni Di Stefano.
The ancient name 'Mesopotamio' comes from the fact that the
wine was produced in the plane between the two rivers of Ippari
and Dirillo.
The Mesopotamio wine was presented at a conference on 'The
sites of Dionysus: archaeology and wine in Sicily with the
contribution of the Cultural Heritage department of the Sicilian
region.
The debate was coordinated by Alberto Pulizzi, the
commissioner of the archaeological park of the Valley of the
Temples in Agrigento.
The project to create a didactic vineyard at the park of
Selinunte near Trapani, involving both Sicily and Tunisia, was
also presented, along with the plan that allowed to resume to
vinification of Diodoros, the wine of the Valley of the Temples
that was originally made near the temple of Juno.
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