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A long time went away, but I'm coming back to report a lot of strange news about the Wine World...
See you soon...

How many wine producers there are in Italy?

There are about 800000 wine producers in Italy, but this number includes wine firms (grapes are grown and trasformed into wine in the same place), and wine company (they produce wine but they don't grow grapes).
Every producer usually has 5-6 kinds of wine (e.g. white, red, rosè and different kinds of grape), so if you try to multiply the producer by kinds of wine, you will find how many different wines there are in Italy.
This one of reasons why you never find the same aroma in a bottle of two different producers.

Romagna's Sangiovese

The Romagna's Sangiovese is great wine but it's difficult to find a good bottle of this wine.
Its features are character, quite alcohol, and tannin.
It has a beautiful aroma. You could find a lot of smells, e.g. violet, blackberry, plum, and pepper.
The good way for drinking this wine is with a meatfood dishes.
It usually has 2 or 3 years, but a good choice is Reserve that can age 5-10 years.
Its famous brother is Tuscany's Sangiovese that has many names dipends where it grows.

I like Sangiovese, especially its aroma and character.

..more Romagna's Sangiovese and less...

Hard to discover

Monday night I went to winebar because I wanted to drink something (everytime is Ok to drink something).
My friend said that he wanted to drink something from Piemonte (wine, of course) and I was agree.
After many propositions we choose a bottle of Langhe Nebbiolo. The year was 1999 and the producer is Mascarello.
In a first time the smells weren't very good, I smelled something like wet barrel and strong alcohol. We had to wait a long time to smell a good fragrance, but then it was very interesting. The Nebbiolo was great and its smells were raspberry, vanilla and pepper.
Hard to discover... but a wine worth testing

DOCG Wines in Veneto

DOCG (denominazione di origine controllata e garantita)

There are three wines in our region that received the most important Italian certificate of quality guarantee:
Bardolino Superiore
Soave Superiore
Recioto di Soave

One interesting thing about Recioto wines is that the farmers use the ears of grapes for to make the wine. These are the external parts of the grape ( in local dialect "recie", see the picture) and they are sweeter than the rest
Finally, there are two kind of Recioto: one in Soave that is white and another one in Valpolicella that is red.

Wines in Veneto

You can see how many wines there are in our region. The picture shows the typical areas where vines grow. The names of these areas sometimes are the names of wines that produce there. The name on the label often is the name of grape and another times is an imaginary name.

Venetian Wine Post 1

This is my own blog... You can see one of my favourite hobbies...
Drinking, knowing and understanding are the activities that everyone can try to do when there is a glass of wine.
Only drinking is so plain, bacause there is a little of fable inside everything.

It's no hard to understand wine and there is no need of professional course or something like that. Everybody can understand the wine bacause everyone can smell its smells, taste its tastes and see its colours.

Why did I put this tittle?
Of course, I live in Venetian land and I like our wines but I know there are many many splendid wines in every region of Italy and in every country in the world.

Pictures