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A bottle of Ferghettina Franciacorta. Franciacorta (Italian pronunciation: [frantʃaˈkorta] ⓘ) is a sparkling wine from the Italian province of Brescia with DOCG status. It is produced using the traditional method from grapes grown within the boundaries of the territory of Franciacorta, on the hills located between the southern shore of Lake Iseo and the city of Brescia.
The Franciacorta sparklers are often a little sweeter than Champagne with the brut style having up to 20 grams per litre of sugar, while brut Champagne can have no more than 15 grams. [ 1 ] While sparkling wine production accounts for more than half of the Franciacorta area's production, many producers have begun focusing on make red Bordeaux ...
This is a list of the 77 Italian DOCG (denominazione di origine controllata e garantita) wines ordered by region. [1] The four original DOCGs were Brunello , Vino Nobile , and Barolo (all approved by a presidential decree in July 1980) and Barbaresco (as approved in October 1980).
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The name "Franciacorta" has over time become synonymous with the same DOCG sparkling wine produced in the many vineyards of the area. Since July 2008, with the publication of the new specification, the name of the DOC "Terre di Franciacorta", used for red and white still wines, has been replaced with Curtefranca. [8] Franciacorta vineyard in ...
The Liv-ex Fine Wine 1000 tracks 1,000 wines from across the world using the Liv-ex Mid Price. It is calculated monthly and was rebased at 100 in December 2003. It comprises seven sub-indices: the Bordeaux 500, the Bordeaux Legends 50, the Burgundy 150, the Champagne 50, the Rhone 100, the Italy 100 and the Rest of the World 50.
The classification was started in 2009 as The Liv-ex Bordeaux Classification, and ranked the wines of Left Bank Bordeaux solely on the price that each wine was worth at the time. Since then, the classification has expanded to reflect the changing conditions of the market for fine wine, and has been updated in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
The method is known as the méthode champenoise, but the Champagne producers have successfully lobbied the European Union to restrict the use of that term within the EU only to wines produced in Champagne. Thus, wines from elsewhere cannot use the term "méthode champenoise" on products sold in the EU, and instead the term "traditional method ...