Top 100 pink wines of Italy - Page 3
Discover the top 100 best pink wines of Italy as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the pink wines that are popular of Italy and the best vintages to taste in this region.
Discovering the wine region of Italy
Italy - home of Moscato, Chianti, Amarone and Prosecco">Prosecco - has a Rich and diverse wine heritage that dates back over two thousand years. Famous for its astonishing diversity of Grape varieties and wine styles, Italy is also important for the Volume of wine it produces: just over 4 billion liters (about 1. 06 billion U. S.
gallons) in 2012, from 800,000 hectares of vineyards. It is rivalled in this respect only by France and Spain. (© Wine-Searcher)
Managing and marketing such a vast portfolio of wines is not an easy task, especially in today's highly competitive wine market. The Italian government's wine classification and labeling system uses a four-level quality hierarchy of over 500 DOCG, DOC and IGT titles.
See Italian wine labels.
Italy is divided into 20 administrative regions (see left), all of which produce wine to some degree, and all of which contain various wine regions. The most important, in terms of quality and quantity, are Tuscany, Piedmont and Veneto.
Each region has its flagship wine styles.
Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir
Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Food and wine pairing with a pink wine of Italy
pink wines from the region of Italy go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of beef bourguignon in the oven of nanou, rice with tuna and tomato or yellow risotto with mussels.
Organoleptic analysis of pink wine of Italy
On the nose in the region of Italy often reveals types of flavors of strawberries, tropical fruit or watermelon and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, cream or apricot.
Top wines in regions and sub-regions of Italy
- Top 100 pink wines of Abruzzes
- Top 100 pink wines of Basilicate
- Top 100 pink wines of Calabre
- Top 100 pink wines of Campanie
- Top 100 pink wines of Delle Venezie
- Top 100 pink wines of Émilie-Romagne
- Top 100 pink wines of Frioul-Vénétie Julienne
- Top 100 pink wines of Latium
- Top 100 pink wines of Ligurie
- Top 100 pink wines of Lombardie
- Top 100 pink wines of Marches
- Top 100 pink wines of Molise
- Top 100 pink wines of Ombrie
- Top 100 pink wines of Piémont
- Top 100 pink wines of Pouilles
- Top 100 pink wines of Sardaigne
- Top 100 pink wines of Sicile
- Top 100 pink wines of Toscane
- Top 100 pink wines of Trentin-Haut-Adige
- Top 100 pink wines of Vallée d'Aoste
- Top 100 pink wines of Vénétie
- Top 100 pink wines of Vino da Tavola