Top 100 white wines of Italy - Page 4
Discover the top 100 best white wines of Italy as well as the best winemakers in the region. Explore the varietals of the white 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 variety, cultivated for a very long time in Piedmont in northwestern Italy, it can also be found in other Italian wine regions. It is known in Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, etc. It is virtually unknown in France.
white wines from the region of Italy go well with generally quite well with dishes of pasta, shellfish or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of ham lasagness, cuttlefish in sauce or salad with 4 cheeses and 2 fruits.
On the nose in the region of Italy often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, acacia or tangerine and sometimes also flavors of truffle, ginger or wax. In the mouth in the region of Italy is a powerful with a nice freshness.
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