Top 100 red wines of Italy - Page 7
Discover the top 100 best red wines of Italy as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the red 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: Montepulciano
A very old grape variety, most likely originating in Italy, now cultivated mainly in the central and central-eastern parts of this country, registered in France in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties, list A1. Montepulciano has long been confused with sangiovese or nielluccio, an A.D.N. analysis has shown that it is different.
Food and wine pairing with a red wine of Italy
red wines from the region of Italy go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of steak tartare, quiche with mixed vegetables or lamb tagine with honey and onions.
Organoleptic analysis of red wine of Italy
On the nose in the region of Italy often reveals types of flavors of earthy, dried fruit or perfume and sometimes also flavors of dried flowers, caramel or mulberry. In the mouth in the region of Italy is a powerful with a lot of tannins present in the mouth.
News from the vineyard of Italy
Fuori Mondo announces Tuscan marble-aged Cabernet Sauvignon for €1,085
Most of the Italian masterpieces of the Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries were carved out of marble. Since the 1980s, Italian viticulture has had its Renaissance in the form of wine, but not much was often thought about combining the two. ‘Man needs to realise his dreams,’ said Yannick Alléno, presenting Fuori Marmo 2019, a unique marble-aged Cabernet Sauvignon from the Costa Toscana IGT at his three-star Michelin restaurant, Pavillon Ledoyen, in Paris last week. The idea was born in 20 ...
Brazil’s Altos de Pinto Bandeira is named first DO exclusively for sparkling wines in the New World
Altos de Pinto Bandeira, located in Brazil’s southern Serra Gaúcha wine region, has been recognised as a DO for traditional method sparkling wines. The new DO, which is the first in the New World that’s exclusively for sparkling wines, was announced on 29 November 2022. The first wines labelled DO Altos de Pinto Bandeira will arrive in the market this year. The move follows 10 years of campaigning and research by the Pinto Bandeira Wine Producers Association (Asprovinho). It worked with bodies i ...
Prices rising for top California wines
Prices have been rising on California fine wines, and especially Screaming Eagle, said Liv-ex this week. Its California 50 index, which tracks the price performance of Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate, Dominus, Opus One and Ridge Monte Bello, has increased by around 32% in the last year. ‘High quality and heightened demand have led to rising prices,’ said Liv-ex, a global marketplace for the trade. Its figures provide more evidence of a strong 12 months for the fine wine market in general, and fol ...
Top wines in regions and sub-regions of Italy
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- Top 100 red wines of Molise
- Top 100 red wines of Ombrie
- Top 100 red wines of Piémont
- Top 100 red wines of Pouilles
- Top 100 red wines of Sardaigne
- Top 100 red wines of Sicile
- Top 100 red wines of Toscane
- Top 100 red wines of Trentin-Haut-Adige
- Top 100 red wines of Vallée d'Aoste
- Top 100 red wines of Vénétie
- Top 100 red wines of Vino da Tavola