1. Would you like a glass of "vin santo"?
This was the typical expression with which he upheld the host of "respect"

2. …HiStOrY…
...ViN sAnTo...
…Origin of the name…
…HoW tO mAkE it…

3. ...HiStOrY oF vIn SaNtO...
“Vin santo” was the wine of hospitality for excellence. Do not have a flask or a bottle in the cellar meant not only be in financial need, but also a certain lack of hospitality from the family farm. In all festive occasions Vinsanto was present, this wine accompanied all important human rituals such as baptism, confirmation and marriage as if to emphasize the sacredness of the moment. Liquor precious and rare, the Vin Santo was a symbol of a certain affluence, because it was, and still is, very expensive for a wine producer with vin santo were celebrated some special moments of life in fields such as harvesting and threshing. Vin santo was loved by all men and women, lords and peasants was a great social leveler of peasant society. Where they drank vin santo reigned good humor and fellowship, as if the amber liquor was able to give precedence to the better side, most lovable of all men. Vin santo is bottled in November or April. Therefore, we are always close to some of the most important religious festivals of the Christian calendar: All Saints' Day, Christmas and Holy Week.

4. ...HoW wE mAkE iT...
Vin santo was produced by collecting the best grapes that were dried mats made hooks. Place to dry the grapes were crushed and the must was transferred to barrels of different woods. The barrels were sealed and usually located in the attic of the manor or otherwise in an attic because it was believed that the strong summer-winter temperature benefitting to fermentation and/or aroma of the wine. It is generally believed that three years of fermentation/aging were sufficient to produce a good Vin Santo.

5. Origin of the name "vin santo"
On the origins of the name Vino Santo has been told a lot: myths and folk beliefs are handed down since the early '400, when it was alleged that the name was derived from the ancient custom to pour a drink during the Easter Holy Week. Other legends claim that the name was given when the Holy Wine Cardinal Bessarion, having tasted the drink, associated with Xantos, perhaps referring to the Greek isle scent of fruits and flowers of wine or perhaps referring to the adjective which in greek means yellow, amber, like the tone of this essence. Another version simply says that the word Saint was given as this wine was specially produced to celebrate mass. But there is one final myth that sees the origin of the name reside in partnership with All Saints Day, when traditionally, in ancient times, was hung to dry grapes.