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Grape Color Region Abbuoto: Red: Lazio Abrusco: Red: Tuscany Acitana: Red: Sicily Addoraca: White: Calabria Aglianico: Red: Basilicata and Campania Aglianicone: Red
Tuscan Chianti in a traditional fiasco. 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 second largest wine producer and the largest exporter as of 2023.
Grappa is an alcoholic beverage: a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin that contains 35 to 60 percent alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof). Grappa is a protected name in the European Union. Grappa is made by distilling the skins, pulp, seeds and stems (i.e., the pomace) left over from winemaking after pressing the grapes. It ...
Aglianico (English: / æ l ˈ j æ n ɪ k oʊ / al-YAN-ik-oh, [1] Italian: [aʎˈʎaːniko]) is a black grape grown in the southern regions of Italy, mostly Basilicata and Campania.It is considered with Sangiovese and Nebbiolo to be one of the three greatest Italian varieties. [2]
Lambrusco (/ l æ m ˈ b r ʊ s k oʊ /, Italian: [lamˈbrusko]) is the name of both an Italian red wine grape and a wine made principally from said grape. The grapes and the wine originate from four zones in Emilia-Romagna and one in Lombardy ―principally around the central provinces of Modena , Parma , Reggio-Emilia , and Mantua .
Schioppettino (pronounced [skjoppetˈtiːno]; meaning "gunshot" or "little crack", also known as "Ribolla Nera") is a red Italian wine grape grown predominantly in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northeast Italy.
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).
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.