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Nebbiolo (/ ˌ n ɛ b i ˈ oʊ l oʊ /, [1] Italian: [nebˈbjɔːlo]; Piedmontese: nebieul) is an Italian red wine grape variety predominantly associated with its native Piedmont region, where it makes the Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) wines of Barolo, Barbaresco, Gattinara, Ghemme, and Roero, together with numerous DOC wines.
The space between the wine and the top of a wine bottle. As a wine ages, the space of ullage will increase as the wine gradually evaporates and seeps through the cork. The winemaking term of "ullage" refers to the practice of topping off a barrel with extra wine to prevent oxidation. Unctuous A wine that has layers of soft, concentrated ...
Barolo, like most nebbiolo-based wines, is known for its light colour and lack of opacity.. Barolo (/ b ə ˈ r oʊ l oʊ / bə-ROH-loh, US also / b ɑː ˈ-/ bar-OH-loh, Italian: [baˈrɔːlo]; Piedmontese: bareul) is a red denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG) wine produced in the northern Italian region of Piedmont.
The label indicates that this is a DOC class wine from the Classico region of Valpolicella. The following four classifications of wine constitute the Italian system of labelling and legally protecting Italian wine: Denominazione di origine (DO, rarely used; Italian: [denominatˈtsjoːne di oˈriːdʒine]; 'designation of origin');
This is a list of the 329 Italian DOC (denominazione di origine controllata) wines ordered by region. [1] The wine making regions of Italy are equivalent to its twenty administrative regions. Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, however, is subdivided into its two constituent parts.
A wine made from the Vino Nobile di Montepulciano DOCG. In a document dated 789, quoted by Emanuele Repetti in "Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana", the cleric Arnipert offers to the Church of San Silvestro in Lanciniano (Amiata area), farmland and a vineyard located in the Castello di Policiano; another document of 17 October 1350, also mentioned by Repetti, lays down the ...
As of 2012, there were between 5,000 and 10,000 varieties of Vitis vinifera grapes though only a few are of commercial significance for wine and table grape production. [ 3 ] The wild grape is often classified as Vitis vinifera sylvestris (in some classifications considered Vitis sylvestris ), with Vitis vinifera vinifera restricted to ...
Italian wine (Italian: vino italiano) is produced in every region of Italy. Italy is the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine in the world, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] with an area of 702,000 hectares (1.73 million acres) under vineyard cultivation, [ 3 ] as well as the world's largest wine producer and the largest exporter as of 2024 [update] .