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Paper, answers to queries about different types of wine in Italy in a letter to Philip Miller by unknown author

Reference number: CLP/10iii/44

Date: January 1728

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Paper responding to queries regarding different types of Italian wine. The paper addresses the particular grape varieties used in winemaking and lists varieties that are used to make wines in the principal regions of Chianti, Ama, and Castellina. The author discusses the superiority of vineyards located on high mountains and the colouring of wine, and also provides a list of the wines made in the Great Duke's vineyard of Castello.

Subject: Winemaking

Addressed to Miller in London. Read to the Royal Society on 6 February 1728.

Reference number
CLP/10iii/44
Earliest possible date
January 1728
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Ink on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Paper, answers to queries about different types of wine in Italy in a letter to Philip Miller by unknown author, January 1728, CLP/10iii/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_10iii_44/paper-answers-to-queries-about-different-types-of-wine-in-italy-in-a-letter-to-philip-miller-by-unknown-author, accessed on 08 February 2026

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