Guarinoni Hippolytus

The imperial councillor and court physician Hippolytus Guarinoni zu Hoffberg und Volderthurn (1571-1654) was a town doctor in Hall in Tyrol(Austria). As a representative of militant Catholicism, he was instrumental in the construction of the Karlskirche in Volders and founded the anti-Semitic Anderl-von-Rinn cult. At that time, Kretzer wines were very popular, produced by immediate pressing and fermentation without mash (light-pressed red wines similar to a rosé ). Guarinoni fought this process with drastic and sometimes absurd accusations, disparagingly calling the wine a "heat-producing malefic beverage", a "suction tug" and the "greatest filth on earth". Instead, he propagated the " fermenter wines" by means of mash fermentation in large standing vessels (stander). In 1610, he published an extensive work on this subject with the puffery title "Von Grewelen der Verwüstung Menschlichen Geschlechts". As a result, the grape variety Vernatsch (Schiava Grossa), which was particularly suitable for this process, became popular in South Tyrol and was increasingly planted. The book also described the most famous Tyrolean wines of the time, including Botzner, Brixner, Calterer Seewein, Cartätsche (Kurtatscher), Epaner, Grisser, Missaner, Nalser, Schappser (Schabser) and Vernätscher (from the variety Vernatsch = Schiava Grossa). Red wine was regarded by him as a remedy because, in his opinion, no other drink went better with the blood and turned into blood after drinking it.