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Italian term for a very large barrel that can hold up to 160 hectolitres (4,200 US gal) Bottiglia Italian term for a wine bottle Bottle Age The length of time that wine has been allowed to age and mature in bottle. Bottle shock Also known as bottle-sickness, a temporary condition of wine characterized by muted or disjointed fruit flavors. It ...
On a wine label, the word's Grand vin may appear to help distinguish the wine from an estate's second or third wine. Gran Reserva Spanish aging designation that for red wine stipulates that it has been aged for a total of 5 years after harvest with at least 18 months in oak (in Rioja and Ribera del Duero the minimum is 24 months).
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.
Grape Color Region Abbuoto: Red: Lazio Abrusco: Red: Tuscany Acitana: Red: Sicily Addoraca: White: Calabria Aglianico: Red: Basilicata and Campania Aglianicone: Red
Italian cuisine relies heavily on traditional products; the country has a large number of traditional specialities protected under EU law. [20] Italy is the world's largest producer of wine , as well as the country with the widest variety of indigenous grapevine varieties in the world.
Two unopened bottles of Amarone. Amarone della Valpolicella, usually known as Amarone (UK: / ˌ æ m ə ˈ r oʊ n eɪ,-n i /, [1] [2] Italian: [amaˈroːne]), is an Italian DOCG denomination of typically rich dry red wine made from the partially dried grapes of the Corvina (45–95%, of which up to 50% could be substituted with Corvinone), Rondinella (5–30%) and other approved red grape ...
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A bottle of ordinary Tuscan table wine in the kind of traditional fiasco formerly used for Chianti. Chianti [a] is an Italian red wine produced in the Chianti region of central Tuscany, principally from the Sangiovese grape. It was historically associated with a squat bottle enclosed in a straw basket, called a fiasco ("flask"; pl.: fiaschi).