Top 100 white wines of Italy - Page 8
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: Sémillon
Sémillon blanc is a grape variety that originated in France (Bordeaux). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. Note that this grape variety can also be used for the elaboration of eaux de vie. This variety of vine is characterized by large bunches of grapes, and grapes of large size. Sémillon Blanc can be found in several vineyards: South-West, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Armagnac, Provence & Corsica, Loire Valley, Rhone Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.
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 fideuà (paella with pasta and fish), shrimp, coconut and ginger soup or sunday night ham and cheese sandwich by fred.
Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Italy
On the nose in the region of Italy often reveals types of flavors of citrus, slate or tropical fruit and sometimes also flavors of lemon curd, meyer lemon or citrus zest. In the mouth in the region of Italy is a powerful with a nice freshness.
News from the vineyard of Italy
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