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Wine: White wine
Kind: Sweet wine
Taste: From dry to sweet
Volume: Medium
Min. alcohol: 17%
Mandatory Storage: Min. 1 years
Storage potential: 10 years
This golden wine's sweetish and sweet versions go well with most desserts, but it's also available as a dry wine. With its 17% alcohol concentration, this Marsala Fine DOC is also called Italy Particular (IP), even though this title is rarely seen.
Marsala Fine is produced from a grape mixture that uses more ’cotto’ (sweet wine and wine alcohol, ’aqua vitae’) than ’sifone’ (cooked down, concentrated must). The latter type often has a higher quality than the conventional, reinforced wines.
The mandatory aging period is 1 year, of which 8 months must be in an oak barrel.
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Did you know?
Italy extends over 10 latitudes – from continental climate to subtropical climate?
So let’s just get one thing straight: at Lombardia (or Lombardy), Italy’s most populated and industrialized region, doesn’t exactly prioritize wine production. Actually, the combined output isn’t that significant, and what is produced is normally consumed locally, especially the wines from Oltrepò Pavese.
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