Top 100 unknow wines of Italy
Discover the top 100 best unknow wines of Italy as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the unknow 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 unknow wine of Italy
unknow wines from the region of Italy go well with generally quite well with dishes of beef, pasta or lamb such as recipes of dombrés and pig tails, spaghetti with squid ink (italy) or steamed lamb shoulder with cumin and coriander.
Organoleptic analysis of unknow wine of Italy
On the nose in the region of Italy often reveals types of flavors of non oak, earth or oak and sometimes also flavors of black fruit, spices or red fruit.
News from the vineyard of Italy
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