The origin of Cellatica
  
The name "Cellatica" high likely comes from the Latin “cell”, whose meaning initially (before the X century) was “oratory or small church”, and then turned to identify “deposits of country fruits” probably regarding a "wine cell" of a monastery.
But the wine tradition of this land seems to have deep roots dating back even to the Celtic people.
  
Since the X century doctors, agronomists and scholars mentioned the wine Cellatica as a valuable wine of great affinity with Greek and Roman wines and thus exported to Milan and Rome.
 
In the XIII century, grapes from Cellatica were told as exceptionally big, juicy and tasty due to the special terroir they came from: a natural, sun-blessed, rocky amphitheater of hills made of limestone and clay facing noon, subject to total insolation and sheltered from the cold winds blowing from the north.
 
In the first half of the XIX century the Cellatica is one of the best-known and sold wine in the area of Milan, sold in taverns and inns as well as in the most important restaurants in the centre.
 
After the wars the low profitability of the land, the proximity of the city with greater opportunities offered by an expanding industry, induced farmers to leave these lands.
 
With the last decades, finally, the Franciacorta "bubbles" exploit turned many farmers' mind toward the fine sparkling white wine instead of the red traditional Cellatica ( this is the only area where two different D.o.c. - Cellatica and Franciacorta - overlap) decreeing a slow oblivion of the Cellatica after the hilights of the past ...
 
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