The Pinot Noir Cultural and Ethnographic Centre
The Pinot Noir Cultural and Ethnographic Centre collects, stores and promotes the documents and the wine growing traditions linked to Pinot Noir. The Centre aims to become a reference point as a centre for documentation and cultural production.
The Centre is a place where you can listen to the story of Pinot Noir and read about it. You can also discover the local wine growing traditions, not forgetting the rest of the world, since Pinot Noir is grown everywhere people live.
The Centre preserves and promotes the material and non-material cultural heritage and makes it more and more alive, both by highlighting the crucial role of the community, the holder of this heritage, and by making visitors of different ages the protagonists.
Scientific Documentation
The Centre implements an operational information system based on advanced technologies, in order to guarantee the communicative integration between the subjects who operate locally at a cultural level and the Centre itself. It also guarantees the integration of the archives’ data.
The Centre also interacts with structures that deal with Pinot Noir worldwide, from a cultural point of view too.
The Centre creates and promotes several contents, mainly scientific, cultural and social ones, about the Oltrepò Pavese and the Pinot Noir in Italy and in the world.
The website includes content provided by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart located in Piacenza:
- local bibliography
- international bibliography on Pinot Noir
Cataloguing
The Pinot Noir Cultural and Ethnographic Centre’s bibliographic material will be published in the Catalogo Unico Pavese, the collective online catalogue managed by the University of Pavia which includes 130 libraries in the province.
Thanks to the publication in the catalogue, anyone will be able to view and learn about the Centre’s bibliographic heritage.
Bibliography
The Catholic University of Piacenza is carrying out a research and collecting bibliography for the Pinot Noir Cultural and Ethnographic Centre. These actions aim to share knowledge about the history of Pinot Noir.
In this section you can consult the proceedings of various historical conferences organised in the Oltrepò Pavese during the 1980s and 1990s.
Some publications may interest wine lovers willing to find out more about the processes behind the Pinot Noir in their glass.
We truly believe that wine is more than a drink. It is alive and links us to history and nature. It allows us to understand how we can make the most of knowledge with hedonism and pleasure.
Other publications can provide a solid foundation on which wine production experts can build up knowledge.
Indeed, reading the documents that we managed to find lets us outlining many salient features of Oltrepò Pavese viticulture in the past decades and the way it has evolved up to the present day.
They include the various Pinot Noir clones, their characteristics and the regions in which they’re grown. The effects of soil, altitude, exposure are explained and the same goes for the best combination with the clone and consequently the type of wine to be produced. In addition to that, useful information is provided on nutritional and phytosanitary aspects.
In order to make the consultation of our virtual library user-friendly, we provide you with some extracts and invite you to consult the category “type of document” first.
The document types are:
| Type | Target |
|---|---|
| Historical Facts | Wine lovers; Wine production experts/Researchers |
| Pinot Noir Characteristics | Wine lovers; Wine production experts/Researchers |
| Information on Oltrepò Pavese in the 1980s and 1990s | Wine lovers; Wine production experts/Researchers |
| The terroir of Pinot Noir in the Oltrepò Pavese | Wine lovers; Wine production experts/Researchers |
| The terroir of Pinot Noir in the Oltrepò Pavese – technical details | Wine production experts/Researchers |
| Terroir theorization | Wine lovers; Wine production experts/Researchers |
| Terroir theorization – technical details | Wine production experts/Researchers |
| Pinot Noir growth and rootstocks | Wine production experts/Researchers |
| Nutritional aspects of Pinot Noir | Wine production experts/Researchers |
| Phytosanitary aspects relating to Pinot Noir | Wine production experts/Researchers |
Type | Author | Title | Place; publisher; date of publication | Subject/Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Analytical | Fregoni Mario; Vercesi Alberto; Gatti Luigi | Estratto degli Atti del convegno 'Il Pinot nero' Broni relativo ai cenni storici | Broni; 1992 | Cenni storici |
Analytical | Fregoni Mario; Vercesi Alberto; Gatti Luigi | Estratto degli Atti del convegno 'Il Pinot nero' Broni relativo alle caratteristiche del Pinot nero | Broni; 1992 | Caratteristiche del Pinot nero |
Analytical | Vercesi Alberto; Gatti Luigi | Estratto degli Atti del convegno 'Il Pinot nero' Broni relativo alle caratteristiche del Pinot nero | Broni; 1992 | Informazioni sull'Oltrepò Pavese |
Analytical | Vercesi Alberto; Gatti Luigi | Estratto degli Atti del convegno 'Il Pinot nero' Broni relativo alle caratteristiche del Pinot nero | Broni; 1992 | Porta innesti e malattie |
Analytical | Vercesi Alberto; Gatti Luigi | Estratto degli Atti del convegno 'Il Pinot nero' Broni relativo alle caratteristiche del Pinot nero | Broni; 1992 | Caratterizzazione del Terroir in Oltrepò Pavese |
Analytical | Vercesi Alberto; Gatti Luigi | Estratto degli Atti del convegno 'Il Pinot nero' Broni relativo alle caratteristiche del Pinot nero | Broni; 1992 | Element relativi alla nutrizione |
Library
The Centre is building up a library of well-known publications and unpublished material in order to promote and spread wine culture.
You will find all the Centre’s material also in the Catalogo Unico Pavese soon.
