The Piedmont area of Italy and Wine
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The Piedmont area of Italy is wine country and is noted for the merits of the wine produced by its vintners. Piedmont is in the northwest corner of Italy. It has no coastline and no large city to attract crowds. It is the home of Nebbiolo, the super-grape producing the most prestigious wines, such as Barolo and Barbaresco. In the north and west parts of Piedmont, there is usually a climate that is too harsh for vines, but grapes can ripen where only river valleys bring air movement and extra sunshine. The Nebbiolo zone features the flow of the Dora Baltea moving south through Ivrea. Most of the region's wines come from the south of Piedmont. Southeast of Turin the landscape is characterized by angular hills with straight rows of vines stretched horizontally across the slopes. The wine zones of Barolo and Barbaresco are on either side of the little town of Alba, famous for its white truffles (Ashley, 1991, p. 83).In Italy the region is known as Piemonte, while we call it Piedmont. The region covers 9,817 square miles and has a population of 4.5 million people. The Capitol city is Turin. The region was part of the old Lombard Kingdom and has been known as Savoy since the eleventh century. In 1729, the Duke of Savoy exchanged his claim to Sicily for Sardinia and took as his title the King of Sardinia. More territory was then included, such as Nice, much of the French province of Savoie, the Aosta Valley and Liguria. The present
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lead to a new classification of the vineyards, starting with Barolo and Barbaresco. The other outstanding wine district in Piedmont is in the alpine foothills between Valle d'Aosta and Lake Maggiore in the provinces of Vercelli and Novara. Nebbiolo prevails in that area in Gattinara, Ghemme, Lessona, and other fine wines.
Piedmont is the best organized of the Italian wine regions for tourism. And focal points for the tourist industry are the Langhe and Monferrato hills and the towns of Alba and Asti, which can be reached by car in just over two hours from Milan and in even less time from Turin and Genoa. There are well-marked wine roads covering as score of production zones, and signs from Alba lead to vineyards and cellars for Barolo, Barbaresco, Dolcetto d'Alba, Barbera d'Alba, Nebbiolo d'Alba, and Moscato d'Asti (Anderson, 1984, pp. 79-80).
THE DOC
The DOC mentioned above is the Denominazione di Origine Controllata, the pillar of Italian wine laws. It is a vast program of control, which is applied from cultivation through production and sales. More than two hundred wine zones have been delimited, but the DOC is a select category that applied to only about 12 percent of national production through 1979. The choices ma
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