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Brolio Bianco
- Is one of Italy's best white wine.
It has a very marked scent and a great delicacy and freshness. You would drink it happily
with trout..
Brunello di Moltalcino - Is quite
expensive these days, having emerged from almost total obscurity
less than two decades ado. Made from the Brunello grape, it is tough, tannic and dry when
young, calling for at least eight years to mature, and as long as a day to
"breathe" in its bottle before serving.
Vino Nobile di Moltepulciano - Unlike the Brunello, this is made from
more or less the same grapes as Chianti. Its name derives from the fact that the
aristocracy used to use this wine for sacramental purpose. Needs ageing.
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Trebbiano - The Trebbia
has its own grape, the Trebbiano, which makes the sweetish local wine of Piacenza.It is
now found throughout Italy.
Albana - Bologna's white wine is Albana.
It is middling in every way expect in strength, which
can be formidable.
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Recioto di
Soave - This sweet white wine is that wonderful combination, rarer than
it should be in Italy: traditional and good. Drink youngish or mature.
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Moltepulciano d'Abruzzo
- It is packed with dense flavour, combining the scent and flavour of blackberries and
cranberries with a swipe of tart fruity acidity.
Red meat is the best partner.
Trebbiano d'Abruzzo - This white wine is something
a bit better than average.
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Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi
- It is not one of the greatest, but there is not reason to feel ashamed.
Drink young.
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Ramitello - This is one
for the pioneers: a wine from
a wine region the Italian hardly know themselves.
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Frascati - Lazio is
Frascati. Because Frascati may
me made entirely from one or other of its grapes, or from a mixture of both, there is no
typical style.
In Rome they drink it no matter what it is in the menu, and it is considered that Romans
know a thing or two about partnering food and wine.
East East East - According to all History and tradition
is a white wine. Semy sweet or sweet. If you ask for it at Montefiascone they will offer
you red as well.
The red is sweet and fresh has a slight edge on the white.
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