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Gioia del Colle Primitivo DOC is the best known wine of this zone. It is a large and powerful wine made from the grape with the same name, Primitivo (100%), with a typical, mild fragrance. The flavor is rich and inviting, the color ranges from purple to garnet with age,...
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Gravina Rosato DOC is a fairly rare rosé based on the same grape composition as the red wine Gravina Rosso DOC. The grapes thus consists of Montepulciano (40-100%), Primitivo (20-100%) with the permission to add local red grapes, usually Aglianico, Uva di Troia, Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon (0-30%).
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Orta Nova Rosso DOC is an obscure red wine grown around the town of Orta Nova, south of Foggia. It’s produced from Sangiovese grapes (60-100%), Uva di Troia and/or Montepulciano, Lambrusco Maestri and Trebbiano Toscano (0-40%).
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This sweet red wine was Apulia’s (Puglia) very first DOCG wine (2010), which was a great step for the regions born-again wine industry.
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Canosa is a small town 20 km. inland from Apulia’s coast between the Bari and Foggia provinces right on the border. Since 1979, this red wine, Rosso Canosa, had its own DOC, but in 2011 local producers requested the agricultural ministry to be merged into the better-known neighbor zone, Castel...
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Friuli-Venezia Giulia is the smallest of the so-called “Tre Venezie”, which includes the regions Trentino, Veneto and Friuli. The names ‘Friuli’ and ‘Giulia’ refer to Julius Caesar. ‘Friuli’ derives from the Latin ‘forum julii’, modern city Cividale, and Giulia derives from Julius (Caesar).
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