Top 100 pink wines of Italy - Page 4
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.
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.
A very old grape variety grown in the Italian Piedmont. It has a great resemblance with the Freisa, which also comes from the same Italian region. Among the various massal selections made in Italy, we find lampia, michet and rosé. It can be found in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Mexico, the United States (California), Australia, etc. In France, it is practically unknown, perhaps because it is a delicate and demanding grape variety with, among other things, a fairly long phenological cycle.
pink wines from the region of Italy go well with generally quite well with dishes of lamb, veal or pork such as recipes of grilled leg of lamb marinated in aromatic oil, milanese osso buco or vegetable planter.
On the nose in the region of Italy often reveals types of flavors of citrus, peach or strawberries and sometimes also flavors of honey, earth or tree fruit. In the mouth in the region of Italy is a powerful with a nice freshness.