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Piedmont, with its world-famous barolo wines and annual Alba white truffle festival, is an unsung autumnal delight. Victoria Grier explores the region’s towns, cuisine and vine-covered landscape
The Piedmont produces more DOCG wines by volume than any other Italian wine region with nearly 84% of all the areas wine production falling under a DOCG designation. The area has no indicazione geografica tipica (IGT) classification, in contrast to Tuscany where IGT wines or Super Tuscans make up a significant portion of that region's wine ...
Located in the center of Piedmont region (North West of Italy), the site is inscribed as a "cultural landscape", since it is a result of the combined work of nature and man. The site is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List thanks to the outstanding value of its wine culture, which has shaped the landscape over the centuries. [2]
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.
Serralunga d’Alba and its vineyards. A Cabernet Sauvignon/Barbera blend from the Langhe DOC. The Langhe (Italian pronunciation:; Langa is from old dialect Mons Langa et Bassa Langa) is a hilly area to the south and east of the river Tanaro in the provinces of Cuneo and Asti in Piedmont, northern Italy.
Piedmontese cuisine is the style of cooking in the Northern Italian region of Piedmont.Bordering France and Switzerland, Piedmontese cuisine is partly influenced by French cuisine; this is demonstrated in particular by the importance of appetizers, a set of courses that precede what is traditionally called a first course and aimed at whetting the appetite.
Montferrat is one of the most important wine districts of Italy. It also has a strong literary tradition, including the 18th-century Asti-born poet and dramatist Vittorio Alfieri and the Alessandrian Umberto Eco. The territory is cut in two by the river Tanaro.
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