Tenuta Liliana is a recently-founded winery in the Salento area a Cabernet Sauvignon that represents a mosaic of all the estate vineyards since it has found its ideal habitat at Salento’s latitude in collaboration with internationally-famed French grapevine breeder Pier Marie Guillaume identified the appropriate clones for the parcels and planted the vineyards to those cultivars Cabernet expresses the characteristics of these vineyards with its classic elegance and at the same time with a remarkable fidelity to the distinctive identity of that terroir This project of ours aims to enhance the uniqueness all with the goal of producing an authentic outstanding wine,” commented Antonio and Liliana as a firm believer in the winegrowing qualities of the Salento is determined to contribute to that terroir’s overall identity through its own particular international and contemporary style The grapes selected for Tenuta Liliana 2022 are grown on 12 hectares of organically-farmed vineyards divided into five separate parcels they boast a rich diversity of soils among themselves from rocky limestone to clay-and iron-rich soils and to silt and sand “The goal,” explain winemakers Carlo Ferrini and Andrea Fattizzo its own expression of finesse and elegance but never neglecting to pay attention to their ancient The harvest was carried out by hand on 26 September The clusters were brought into the wine cellar where they were further quality-selected on a sorting table designed to ensure the integrity of the berries and the must was fermented in tapered vats followed by 8 days of maceration on the skins the wine was transferred to barrels and tonneaux of Allier Tenuta Liliana is ready to debut in international markets as proud ambassador of its world Tenuta Liliana was founded in 2017 in Parabita Milan-based businesspersons of Pugliese origin the grace and power of the local terroir in a manner both authentic and deeply personal To vinify it in the most appropriate manner possible the Intiglietta family built a high-tech wine cellar strikingly set within an ex-quarry För att läsa hela vår uppdaterad integritetspolicy kring den nya dataskyddsförordningen GDPR och hur vi hanterar dina uppgifter, klicka här support@livetsgoda.se Teckna prenumeration Kontakta Christoffer Enquist: christoffer.enquist@livetsgoda.se A new work by Michelangelo Pistoletto in a village in the province of Lecce L’edicola del Canto della pace preventiva a work created by the Piedmontese artist for the Salento municipality of Parabita which aims to create a permanent contemporary art collection starting with the reactivation of the votive wayside shrines that dot the village’s historic center.The opening ceremony will be held today at 8:30 p.m in the widening at the foot of the steps of the Church of St who will present a Lectio Magistralis introduced by “Votiva” co-curator Laura Perrone The meeting will be preceded by greetings from the Mayor of Parabita Stefano Prete a brief introduction to the project by co-curator Flaminia Bonino and a talk on Pistoletto’s work by Raffaela Zizzari Guided tours of the votive wayside shrines will follow The aedicule of Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Song of Preventive Peace features a sphere of newspapers and the Song of Preventive Peace reflected in a mirrored surface with a QR code that activates an additional level of reading the work This site-specific installation continues Pistoletto’s commitment to creating art as an engine of social transformation and offers an important invitation to peace the brainchild of Mayor Stefano Prete and under the artistic direction of Giovanni Lamorgese with the curatorship of Laura Perrone and Flaminia Bonino and the support of Councillor Francesca Leopizzi is part of the larger Parabita for the Contemporary project This project sees for the first time the City of Parabita commissioning a selection of artworks specially created for the occasion and signed by sixteen internationally renowned contemporary artists The artists featured in Votiva include Francesco Arena (1978 Claire Fontaine (an art collective formed by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill form an itinerary through the historic center of the village inviting visitors to rediscover its spaces by following the thread of votive aedicules Originally born as a testimony to popular spirituality these aedicules have become a distinctive feature of Parabita’s architectural landscape and now create a fertile ground for the regeneration of the community fabric transforming themselves into spaces of artistic expression for citizenship The program aims to strengthen the link between community and tradition opening new avenues toward creativity and innovation through targeted interventions that see contemporary art as a valuable engine for growth and change 30-year-old Michela Parabita joined the Poor Clare Sisters in the southern Italian town of Manduria formalizing her request for her first religious profession of temporary vows in the presence of the faithful of the town and the bishop of Oria (of which Manduria is part) a native of nearby Crispiano who used to work as a nurse the choice to become a cloistered nun is a radical vocation a life consecrated to silence and solitude of which about 15 were present at the Concelebration.  Michela is ready to give up everything to possess "the ‘everything’ that is God," said Bishop Pisanelli. "Cloistered life means cutting off what is not allowed, what is not love. And she, the new nun, was called by God to speak to mankind and to convert hearts," reported La Voce della Manduria Sister Michela says she chose to enter this community "because I felt at home." "I had everything," she adds to La Voce della Manduria "and yet something was missing to give fulfillment to my life.” For her a gift: it means "giving oneself entirely to God and to others," she continued the choice to become a cloistered nun was an uphill process although she still experiences some insecurity: "Yes I am afraid but I also have a lot of trust in God above all and in mankind." And she bravely admits her family's point of view: "They don’t agree much (with my decision) but when you love a person you try to accept everything." Articles like these are sponsored free for every Catholic through the support of generous readers just like you Please make a tax-deductible donation today Help us continue to bring the Gospel to people everywhere through uplifting Catholic news A highly trained squad of super-sniffer dogs could save them the dog trainer Mario Fortebraccio slowly bends toward a line of potted olive trees and indicates it with his hand rushes through the row of plants with his head tilted the rhythm of his inhaling echoing through the greenhouse The dog is carefully scouting for something humans can't sense "They don't do anything if there is no reward," Fortebraccio tells me with a smile lifted his leg to urinate on a nearby plant At Vivai Giuranna, an extensive commercial greenhouse with over one million plants in Parabita, in the southern Italian region of Puglia, Paco is searching for Xylella fastidiosa, a type of bacterium that has been ravaging southern Italy's olive fields for the past decade Paco and a few other four-legged colleagues make up the highly trained Xylella Detection Dogs team "These dogs have got something unique," says Angelo Delle Donne the head plant health inspector for the government of the province of Lecce who has been battling Xylella since it was discovered in Puglia in 2013 Xylella fastiodiosa is a bacterium that clogs the xylem (the vessels that carry water from the roots to the leaves) of trees and other woody plants and slowly chokes them to death. Spittlebugs spread the disease: when they bite an infected leaf and the bugs transmit the disease when they feed on their next healthy plant Today, an endless sea of dead, grey tree trunks covers the lower part of the region, dotted with what's left of thousands of small-scale farms has personal experience of a Xylella attack When plant inspectors found infected plants in his greenhouse he had to dispose of about €1m ($1m/£900,000) worth of plants "We were too superficial [in countering Xylella] in the first years," Giuranna says "There are no more monumental olive trees left." He wishes controls had been tighter and faster. However, the regional governor President Michele Emiliano was initially sceptical about a link between Xylella and the rapid desiccation of olive trees The scientists working on trying to stop the bacteria were put on trial, accused of spreading the bacteria themselves (eventually, all charges were dropped) Italy was investigated by the European Commission for an inadequate response A spokesperson for Emiliano told Future Planet that he had never endorsed anti-scientific or conspiracy theories "The President has launched an important action of listening to everyone personally participating in all the events to which he was invited dramatic and divisive as Xylella into the context of a civil dialogue," the spokesperson said Italy's response has now improved since the early days after the infection, taking measures such as large-scale disease monitoring Xylella keeps spreading through the region's olive fields "We are always chasing the disease," says Delle Donne it has to be uprooted and any other trees in a 50m (160ft) vicinity are carefully inspected Nicola di Noia, an agronomist from Taranto and the general director of Unaprol Italy's largest olive oil producers' consortium understands the danger of Xylella well and loudly advocates for its containment "We can't just get caught up in environmentalist passion he thought of his past experience as a carabiniere (an officer for Italy's gendarmerie) working with molecular-detection dogs for uncovering drugs and explosives and remembered their incredible olfactory skills "We began looking for similar works done by dogs on plants," Di Noia says. And they found that a team of Californian experts had figured out a way to use smell to detect bacteria on citrus fruits Excited by the possibility, Di Noia spoke about this idea with the Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana (ENCI the national organisation responsible for the recognition and registration of pedigree dogs in Italy) and with the head researchers on Xylella in Bari He put together the funds and decided to call in the cavalry – the Xylella Detection Dogs receptors in the nose detect molecules in the air and send the information to the brain the air goes out through the two side slits of the nose not through the nostrils as we do: this is why dogs can sniff in a continuous cycle catching large volumes of air and odorants "There are animals that see a lot more colours than we do," said Adee Schoon an independent Dutch biologist who has been working with scent detection by animals for the past three decades "If you take that analogy and use it with dogs you can see that we are definitely odour-blind compared to dogs." Most dogs can navigate the scent world in ways we cannot fathom but it takes special individuals and a lot of training to become detection dogs Schoon used to work with detection dogs in forensics in particular rape cases for the Dutch police She says to think of detection dogs as highly trained specialists who recognised scents in the way humans recognise people's faces training a new dog is not easy and can take some time a dog trainer for ENCI and the coordinator of the Xylella Detection Dogs experimental programme thanks to their larger nose and chest space are more likely to become good super smellers and work longer shifts in a self-directed way because a dog's personality is important too: to pass all the exams to become a detection dogs "This is important in order to develop a reward system," Donnini says "Until we have something that the dog wants so strongly that he would almost be willing to kill to get it we can't move forward to train him." A common object that Donnini and her colleagues often work with is a hollow rubber toy After letting the dog initially play with it trainers start hiding it to work on the dog's searching skills 'working here is great because I found my toy'," Donnini says the more the trainer breaks the rubber into smaller pieces until they become the size of a lentil the more the dog concentrates on finding it and speeds up its sniffing frequency Once the dog is taught how to indicate it has found the toy by freezing The first is pairing – putting together target smell and toy The dog soon learns to signal when it recognises the new smell Donnini says it's crucial to train the dogs with the right scents and this is where the scientists of the National Research Council play a fundamental role that scent is the odour of an infected plant a plant virologist and the head of the Bari unit of the CNR Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection in charge of studying Xylella has been providing Donnini with certified infected olive plants Boscia's team is currently trying to figure out the specific molecules released by the infected plants that the dogs perceive but we have to give the dog all the puzzle pieces so that he can create a precise smell image," Donnini adds Donnini lays out five small potted olive trees in a row in the yard of Forestaforte and the research outpost of CNR in Salento One of the plants carries a tag with a red dot certified as infected with Xylella by Boscia's team his seven-year-old dappled white and brown springer spaniel No matter where the plant was positioned in the line both Ellis and Paco could clearly spot and freeze in front of it according to one study led by Annalisa Giampetruzzi of the University of Bari Aldo Moro "It is precisely these [places] that have been the Trojan horse in which Xylella was introduced into a new area," Boscia says They imagine trained dogs deployed in each entrance port that receives imported plants and others that would periodically scout the region's greenhouses "We need to train dogs to identify Xylella-infected plants regardless of the plant species where it is found," Boscia said The researchers still do not know if the compounds that the dogs smell come from the roots or from the branches of the tree they'll be able to simultaneously uncover the bacteria in a rosemary or an oleander plant a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California who has been working for years to build instruments that can detect volatile organic compounds there are 50 volatile compounds emitted by each different Xylella-infected plant species it could be that a portion of those compounds are shared between all "I think that there's a really reasonable expectation that you could train an animal like a dog or a sensor to be able to detect that over time," Davis says The emissions from travel it took to report this story were 118kg CO2, travelling by train and car. 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