Records on Istrian viniculture from the 19th century

     Science 18th century authors have appeared in different parts of Europe who in their writings, scientific as well as popular, have searched for improvement of farming methods. Following this tradition works on viniculture and on wine production appear in Istria if the 19th century, the authors of which are Pietro Predonzani (1820) from Poreč, Pietro Stanovich (1825) from Barbana, Nicolo del Bello (1876) from Koper and Carlo Hugues (different papers about 1890), the doctor of the 'Experimental Wine and Fruit Growing Station' in Poreč.

     Predonzani appeals to wine growers to give up old methods of wine growing, which in his opinion are burdened whit prejudice, his instruction, however, are very general and incomplete. In contrast to him Strankovich, always an attentive reader of the most up-to-date publications of his time, experiments whit new methods of wine growing and researches the results of these scientifically. Dell Bello in accurate and clear, but his contribution, the greatest part of it being about the hinterland of Piran, mostly of descriptive characters. Huges on the other hand, the century coming slowly to its end, already dovecotes for the decisively modern vision: his attitude is pragmatic and strictly scientific. Anyway, all the authors look critically on the numerous traditional methods of wine growing and encourage the native wine growers to play more attention to the quality of their product.