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Barbaresco, bearing the name of the town located northeast of Alba, was in 1966 among the first wines in Italy, who got its DOC status. In 1980 it received its DOCG.
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Barbera d'Asti received its DOC classification back in 1970 and has since seen several of the neighboring wines rise in the hierarchy of the Italian classification system, but in 2008 the Asti red wine finally obtained its own DOCG.
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This red wine has the same grape composition as the non-barrel aged type, Barbera d'Asti DOCG. As the name suggests, Barbera d'Asti Superiore DOCG is made from the Barbera grape variety (90-100%), with the permitted addition of local red grapes (0-10%).
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"Waiter, there's something wrong with this red wine," said a suspicious guest after the first sip of the just served Barbera del Monferrato. The reason for the question is understandable, for it is not every day that one tastes a bubbly or vivacious red wine.
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Boca is both a small zone and a rare red wine made from the Nebbiolo grape (locally named Spanna) (70-90%) with Vespolina and Uva Rara (Bonarda Novarese) together or separately (10-30%). Despite its modest size, its roots can be traced back to Roman times.
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That Italy in 2011 was the worlds largest wine producer?
It's unknown where the name Abruzzo comes from, but after the fall of the Roman Empire, the region's land areas were subjected to a number of dynasties, and for several hundred years they were ruled from the south as a part of the Napoli kingdom.
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