Pompeii's 'Mesopotamio' wine at Expo

(ANSA) - Palermo, July 6 - 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along with the plan that allowed to resume to vinification of Diodoros, the wine of the Valley of the Temples that was originally made near the temple of Juno.