Findings, as well as names still in use today, prove how much was adopted by subsequent generations. The Romans adopted from the Raeti the new technique of storing and transporting wine in wooden barrels. With the expansion of roads across the Alps and the intensification of trade relations, viticulture gained great importance.
In the turbulent times of the migration of peoples, the Lombards first came to the country and then the Bavarians. In the Middle Ages, the wine estates belonged to Bavarian monasteries or nobles. South Tyrolean wine was exported far to the north and, as documents prove, was also drunk at the court of the German Emperor at the end of the Middle Ages. Tyrol came under Habsburg dominion. Viticulture was promoted from Vienna, so that it experienced a heyday by the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In 1919, the German-speaking South Tyrol was awarded to Italy along with Trentino. In the turmoil of the world wars and fascist oppression, viticulture experienced a crisis. Only with the revival of trade relations in the 1970s was the basis for the current situation laid. After the collapse of the bulk wine trade to Switzerland in the mid-1980s, there was a profound change in quality. In addition to the family businesses in the St. Magdalener area near Bolzano and in Überetsch (Kaltern, Eppan), who had been self-marketing for generations, especially in the 1990s, vintners decided to vinify, bottle, and market their quality grapes themselves.
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