Top 100 white wines of Italy - Page 9
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: Verdicchio
This grape variety was known for a long time in the central region of Italy and is now cultivated in almost all the wine-producing regions of this country. Under the name of peverella, it can still be found in Brazil, where it has occupied large areas for a long time. In France, it is almost unknown. It would seem that it has many relatives, in particular with varieties of Italian origin, known or little known, without us being able to quote them with certainty because the doubt still remains, to be followed! The pink verdicchio exists but is not related to any of them.
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 lemon and comté cheese, pasta with scampi or truffade (auvergne - cantal - 15).
Organoleptic analysis of white wine of Italy
On the nose in the region of Italy often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, cream or grapefruit and sometimes also flavors of oaky, tropical or citrus. In the mouth in the region of Italy is a powerful with a nice freshness.
Top wines in regions and sub-regions of Italy
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- Top 100 white wines of Calabria
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- Top 100 white wines of Trevenezie
- Top 100 white wines of Emilia-Romagna
- 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