Some curiosity about Vino Nobile of Montepulciano

The Historic Latin Livio to the time of Augustus the Emperor, writed in "Storie" (opera of 27- 25 b.C.), the Gauls comes in Italy attracted for the wine of these hill.
Arrunte, an Etruscan of Chiusi, was angry to his Locumone (king of Etruscan) and to persuade them to cross over the Alps and to come to this zone, he made to taste the wine Montepulciano, and so he can persuade the Gauls.

As a result of the diffuse reputation of the wine of hills of Montepulciano, Guglielmo III king of England, Scotland and Ireland in the 1669 envoyed an English delegation in the Granducato of Tuscany to find and to take to the English Court the Moscadello of Montalcino and the Noble Wine of Montepulciano.

The Cottabo is an ancient Etruscan game, much in auge to those times that came practiced during the banquets. To the center of the circular room, to put all the table-companions to egual distance, the Kottabos was placed, a metallic auction of approximately 180 cm with own base.
To half of the auction there was a piattello to balance the weight and in the top there was a small base that had to support a metallic piattello. The metallic piattello had to be hit by the wine launched through kylix (the typical goblet from wine in ceramics of the Etruscan banquets).
The drops, or better, the splash of the wine had to unbalance the piattello and make it fall down, attaining the game goal.
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