Italian Wine
Italy is in hot competition with France to be the biggest producer of wine and by that we used to mean quantity, but Italy are producing some very high quality wine as well. Actually, Italian vineyards are some of the oldest
in the world as it was the Romans who spread vineyards
throughout Europe, but Greek settlers were producing wine in Italy 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.
Vineyards can be found everywhere in Italy. At the last count there were one million plus vineyards under cultivation.
Some rural villages in Italy still produce
wine purely for their own consumption and tread the grapes in their
bare feet inkeeping with tradition, but it is just so typically Italian to make wine infused with the romance of simmering summer days as I imagine girls in pretty dresses and laughing smiles up to their knees in grapes. And those traditional and romantic
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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