Top 100 sweet wines of Italy - Page 5
Discover the top 100 best sweet wines of Italy as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the sweet 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: White muscat
White muscat is a white grape variety of Greek origin. Present in several Mediterranean vineyards, it has several synonyms such as muscat de Die, muscat blanc and frontignac. In France, it occupies a little less than 7,000 ha out of a total of 45,000 ha worldwide. Its young shoots are downy. Its youngest leaves are shiny, bronzed and scabrous. The berries and bunches of this variety are all medium-sized. The flesh of the berries is juicy, sweet and firm. Muscat à petits grains has a second ripening period and buds early in the year. It is moderately vigorous and must be pruned short. It likes poor, stony slopes. This variety is often exposed to spring frosts. It fears mildew, wasps, grape worms, court-noué, grey rot and powdery mildew. Muscat à petits grains is used to make rosé wines and dry white wines. Orange, brown sugar, barley sugar and raisins are the known aromas of these wines.
Food and wine pairing with a sweet wine of Italy
sweet wines from the region of Italy go well with generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts, beef or lamb such as recipes of cheese cake (white cheese cake) inratable, cicadas at the chib or tajine of merguez and potatoes.
Top wines in regions and sub-regions of Italy
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- Top 100 sweet wines of Lazio
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- Top 100 sweet wines of Lombardia
- Top 100 sweet wines of Marche
- Top 100 sweet wines of Molise
- Top 100 sweet wines of Umbria
- Top 100 sweet wines of Piedmont
- Top 100 sweet wines of Puglia
- Top 100 sweet wines of Sardinia
- Top 100 sweet wines of Sicily
- Top 100 sweet wines of Southern Italy
- Top 100 sweet wines of Tuscany
- Top 100 sweet wines of Trentino-Alto-Adige
- Top 100 sweet wines of Valle d'Aosta
- Top 100 sweet wines of Veneto
- Top 100 sweet wines of Vino da Tavola
The best wines of Italy in other styles
- The best wines natural sweet of Italy in other styles
- The best wines other of Italy in other styles
- The best wines pink of Italy in other styles
- The best wines red of Italy in other styles
- The best wines sparkling of Italy in other styles
- The best wines unknow of Italy in other styles
- The best wines white of Italy in other styles