Italian Wine Regions

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The wine is very important for Italy. The country has the reputation of being the second largest wine producer in the world and has a number of areas, each of them a wide range of wines. Thank you for reporting more than 900,000 registered vineyards (enough for a vineyard for seven people) and the indigenous grapes, more than any other country outside of wine, a new company in the world of wine can be overwhelmed for a while, if award, Select Italian wine. But do not turn. You review the major Italian wine producing regions, can begin.


Northwest is the Italy of the four major regions of Lombardia, Piemonte, Valle d'Aosta and Liguria. Piedmont is the most important when it comes to Italian wine production. The most famous wines of Barolo and Barbaresco come. This full-bodied, Italian red wines of the Nebbiolo grape is. Barolo, a wine with a certain age. However, in Piedmont, which passes through the cheapest red wine, Dolcetto Barbera grapes. If you prefer white wine, make sure the Cortese di Gavi grape or Asti, a semi-dry Italian sparkling wine from Muscat. Val d'Aosta, achieved through a number of local varieties, including Picotendro Little Red, a local version of Nebbiolo grapes.
 In wine the key to northern Italy's Veneto region. You can learn Valpolicella, where the realm of red wines, which vary considerably in the way of light and the consumption of wine per day in the wine more body. It consists of a mixture of grapes, but most of Corvina. It also comes Prosecco Veneto. This wine is a dry Italian sparkling wine often goes well with drinkers who want an alternative to champagne. Soave, neighbors, even in the Northeast, creating a good Italian white wine from Garganega and Trebbiano grapes, is produced.
  The Italian wine and the great main production area is the heart of Tuscany in Italy. Chianti is the most important export market in the region and produce a mixture of half red wine, mainly from Sangiovese grapes. Outside this range, but is still in Tuscany, Montalcino and Montepulciano, Sangiovese and Italian red wines.

Staying in central Italy, the famous Lambrusco from Emilia Romagna, Lazio and Frascati, Verdicchio wine medium bodied dry white wine of Italy, the region with the same name.

 The amount, and certainly the quality of Italian wines in the south have increased considerably in recent years. A good value in general, the area is red, deep, rich, strong, and the money supply. Puglia, in particular, offer interesting wines. Sicily also produces high quality wines from international grape varieties and fortified wine Marsala.
This is a brief introduction to the wines of that country.

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