🎉 Wine Folly+ Now Available 👉Learn MoreGuidesGrapesRegionsTopicsSchoolClubShopWine Folly+Wines Learn more about the major wine styles of the world.Bandol (Red) Bandol is a tiny appellation within Provence, France that is most famous for its rich, peppery, and meaty red wines made almost ...
Discover some of the world’s best sparkling wine in the Italian wine region of Valdobbiadene using Wine Folly’s Region Guide. Read More Alto Adige: The 4 Wines You Must Know If you’re thinking of exploring Alto Adige (one of Italy’s top 20 wine regions!) then you must find out ab...
Italian Wine Regions The most up-to-date Italian map is included in Wine Folly’s Complete Map Set, 2nd Edition. Italy produces a huge amount of table wine, Vermouth, and cooking wines (such as Marsala). That being said, there are three major regions that produce high-quality table wines...
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Rive means “bank” or “slope” in Italian and references 43 hilly locales within Conegliano Valdobbiadene that produce exceptional grapes. This sub-region is microscopic compared to the others, and hard to find! Valdobbiadene Superiore di Cartizze DOCG Tooted by most to be the “bees knees”...
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Italian wine term to describe a semi-sweet wine. Amino Acids Organic compounds; the building blocks of proteins. Red wine contains 300–1300 mg/L of amino acids, of which proline accounts for up to 85%. Appellation A legally defined geographical location used to identify where (and how) gr...
Get to know sparkling Italian wine. There are 5 major types of sparkling wines from Italy which include Prosecco, Lambrusco, Franciacorta and Asti Spumante.
Colli Orientali del Friuli is also home to 3 DOCG (the highest level of the 4-tier Italian quality system), 2 of which are devoted to sweet wines: Ramandolo: the variety is Verduzzo Picolit: the variety is Picolit Though these wines are not cheap ($30 up to over $100 for top pr...
He said it might have come from a several sources including the famed Luigi Veronelli, an Italian wine/food writer and intellectual, or from Burton Anderson, a writer who moved to Tuscany in 1977 to write about its bright future, or it could have been David Gleave, a Master of Wine and...