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Franciacorta (as Spumante, Spumante rosé and Spumante cremant), produced in the province of Brescia; Oltrepo Pavese Metodo Classico (as Rosé, Cremant, Pinot Noir, Pinot Noir Rosé), produced in the province of Pavia; Moscato di Scanzo or "Scanzo", produced in the province of Bergamo
The vineyards of Valdobbiadene. Prosecco was traditionally used as the name for the grape variety. In Italy, it was also used more specifically for sparkling wines produced primarily from it, such as Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene, Prosecco di Conegliano and Prosecco di Valdobbiadene, all of which had DOC status, and there was also an IGT zone surrounding them.
Asti (also known as Asti spumante) [2] is a sparkling white Italian wine that is produced throughout southeastern Piedmont, but is particularly focused around the towns of Asti and Alba. Since 1993 the wine has been classified as a denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG) and as of 2004 was Italy's largest producing appellation ...
Minimum alcohol content must be of 11.5%, or 12% for riserva. Trento DOC wines are distinguished by their straw-yellow color. Prosecco is made in both fully sparkling (spumante) and lightly sparkling (frizzante) styles. The wine is produced in the cool hills around the town of Valdobbiadene and are generally dry but sweeter examples are ...
A bottle of Prosecco di Conegliano spumante extra dry and a glass of Prosecco frizzante, which stops forming bubbles soon after it is poured. Prosecco (/ p r ə ˈ s ɛ k oʊ, p r oʊ-/, [1] [2] Italian:) is an Italian DOC or DOCG white wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions, and named after the village of Prosecco, in the province ...
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.
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This production method is widely used in the U.S., in Italy, especially in the Asti province, and in Prosecco wines, and in Germany to produce variants of Sekt such as Henkell Trocken. Charmat-method sparkling wines can be produced at a considerably lower cost than traditional method wines. [11]