Top 100 white wines of Italy - Page 6
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.
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: Grillo
A very ancient grape variety still grown today in western Sicily. Very often associated with catarratto and inzolia, it produces the famous Marsala liqueur wine. It is also increasingly being vinified as a single variety and produces excellent dry wines full of freshness and fruitiness. Grillo is believed to be the result of an intra-fertile cross between catarratto and Muscat of Alexandria or zibibbo, obtained in 1869 by Antonino Mendola. It is represented by two biotypes that can be easily recognized, but it seems that winegrowers attach little importance to them. Little known in other Italian regions - in Liguria it is known as "rossese bianco" - it can also be found in Australia and South Africa. It is not widely grown in France, although it is interesting because of its ability to withstand hot climates and drought, and to ripen quite late.
Food and wine pairing with a white wine of Italy
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 pasta with neapolitan sauce and mushrooms, rice with seafood or peppers with lentil stuffing.
Top wines in regions and sub-regions of Italy
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- Top 100 white wines of Friuli-Venezia Giulia
- Top 100 white wines of Lazio
- Top 100 white wines of Liguria
- Top 100 white wines of Lombardia
- Top 100 white wines of Marche
- Top 100 white wines of Molise
- Top 100 white wines of Umbria
- Top 100 white wines of Piedmont
- Top 100 white wines of Puglia
- Top 100 white wines of Sardinia
- Top 100 white wines of Sicily
- Top 100 white wines of Southern Italy
- Top 100 white wines of Tuscany
- Top 100 white wines of Trentino-Alto-Adige
- Top 100 white wines of Valle d'Aosta
- Top 100 white wines of Veneto
- Top 100 white 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 sweet of Italy in other styles
- The best wines unknow of Italy in other styles