Italian Wine
Italy competes with France to be the biggest producer of quantities
of wine. Italian vineyards are some of the oldest in the world,
but although it was the Romans who spread vineyards throughout
Europe, Greek settlers were producing wine in Italy produced
wine long before the Romans started growing their own vineyards.
However it was the Romans who organised large-scale production
and it was the Roman who developed wine storage by making the
first barrels.
There are vineyards in almost every corner of Italy, with,
at the last count, in excess of 1 million vineyards under cultivation.
In some rural parts of Italy, Italian villagers still produce
wine for their own consumption by treading the grapes in their
bare feet, in the romantically traditional fashion. Those traditional
Italians would argue the ancient method still produce the best
flavoured wine.
Italian Wine Regions:
Aosta Valley (Valle D'Aosta)
Piedmont (Piemonte)
Liguria
Lombardy (Lombardia)
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Veneto
Emilia-Romagna
Tuscany (Toscana)
Marche (Le Marche) |
Umbria
Lazio
Abruzzo
Molise
Campania
Basilicata
Apulia (Puglia)
Calabria
Sicily (Sicilia)
Sardinia (Sardegna |
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