The vine has a long history in Southern Italy. Oenotria, the land of vines, is what the Greeks affectionately called the modern 'Mezzogiorno,' the southern part of the Italian boot as well as Sicily. Southern Italy was a Greek colony in the centuries before Christ, so much so, the South was known as 'Magna Graecia,' literally 'Greater Greece.' When the Greeks colonized Southern Italy they brought with them one of the markers of civilization: the vine.
To be specific,, the Phoenicians were
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