3iC

Question 1

How many km is Piedmont? and what is it composed of?

Answer 1

25 KM2 43% mountain 30% hill (70% mountain or hills) 27% plain 90% of wine production = hilly region

Question 2

What is the most important decade for wines? and who were the important individuals?

Answer 2

19th century 1) Marchesa Colbert Falletti di Barolo 2) Count Camillo Benso di Cavour - wine producer and great politician 3) Gen Francesco Staglieno - Director of Winemaking of Pollenzo Agency of Savoy Royal Family 4) Louis Oudart - oenologist/merchant

Question 3

What are the soils for 1) hills around Turin (and Northeast) 2) Langhe and Monferrato

Answer 3

1) Turin - porphyry and granite 2) Langhe and Monferrato - most fertile soils - marl, sandstone, chalk

Question 4

What are the top 10 grapes?

Answer 4

60% red, 40% white

1 Barbera 11,000

2 Moscato Bianco 10,400

3 Nebbiolo 5,700 (half of barbera)

4 Dolcetto 4,200

5 Cortese 2,700

6 Chardonnay 1,200

7 Brachetto 1,200

8 Arneis 1,200

9 Freisa 800

10 Grignolino 750

Question 5

Most popular white grapes?

Answer 5

1) Moscato Bianco 10k
2) Cortese 2,700 (1/3 of Moscato)
3) Chardonnay 1,200
4) Arneis 1,200
5) Erbaluce 350
6) Favorita (Vermentino) 225

Question 6

Talk about this grape’s origins

Answer 6

Cortese

1) 2nd most planted variety

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Question 7

Talk about the grape origins

Answer 7

Arneis

1) 4th most planted, after chardonnay
2) name origins = rascally individuals
3) “nebbiolo blanco” = grows tall and erect like nebbiolo
4) Bric Renesio
- historical cru for arneis (since 1478)
5) almost extinct in 1960s, but thanks toBric Renesio
- Alfredo Currado (Vietti)
- Bruno Giacosa
- Giovanni Negro
6) 1980s = Italy’s most ouplar dry white
- Ceretto’s Blange
7) Piedmont

DOCG: Roero Arneis

DOC: Langhe, Terre Alfieri

8) Most plantings
- left side of the Tanaro River (Roero area)
- Monteu Roero: best
- sand, chalk, marl
- Canale: like Monteu Roero
- Castellinaldo: less interesting, clay rich soils, more body and extract
- S Stefano Roero
- Monta
9) Sardinia

15 IGTs

Question 8

Talk about this grape in the vines and in the glass.

Answer 8

Arneis

1) bloomy - like nebbiolo
2) adaptable grape
- vigorous (more than favorita)
- good and dependable production
- average disease resistance (but does suffer oidium)

- pick grapes at right time = preserve acid

3) Taste
- yellow fruits
- white flowers, mint
- sweet almond
- acid/intensity = M-

Question 9

Talk about this grapes origins

Answer 9

Erbaluce

1) 5th most planted white
2) Origins
- albaluce = fairy blessed the townspeople of Caluso with Erbaluce as her gift
3) local dialect
- Bian Rousti and Uva Rustia
- rousti = roasted (color of ripe berries)
4) locally called Greco (esp around Novara)
- not correct
5) timeline
- 1855: Piero Genta won gold medal for Caluso at Paris Exhibition
- Piedmont’s first white DOC wine in 1967
6) Piedmont
- mostly in Canavese (around Caluso) and Alto Piemonte
- best in Caluso = sandy/gravel, rich in potassium and phosphates
- best sites are located in amphitheater: Baiarda, Barbetta, Castellazzo, Feralda, Macellio, Montasso, Sant’Andrea, Sant’Antonino, Santa Croce
- DOCG: Erbaluce di Caluso o Caluso
- DOC
- Canavese
- Coste della Sesia
- Colline Novaresi
- Piemonte

Question 10

Talk about the grape’s in the vines and in the glass.

Answer 10

Erbaluce

1) thick skin and high acid
- suitable for air drying
2) vigorous
- medium/irregular productivity
- early bud break = susceptible to spring frost
- canopy = protect from hail
3) in the glass
- white flowers, green apple, grass (delicate)
- acid = high
- body/alchol = medium
- intensity = M-

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Question 11

Discuss about the origins of this wine.

Answer 11

Favorita

1) “favorite”
- large berries
- popular table grape
2) synonyms
- vermentino = Liguria (where grape is from) & Sardinia
- pigato = Liguria
- favorita = Roero, arrived 300 years ago via Ligurian oil merchants. historically used to smooth out nebbiolo
3) Piedmont

DOC

• Langhe
• Colli Tortenesi
• Piedmont

Question 12

Name the species of hazelnut in Piedmont.

Answer 12

1) Nocciolo Tonda Gentile Trilobata
2) Tonda Gentile del Piemonte
- IGP created in 1993
3) Langhe, Monferrato, Alto Piemonte
- 3300 h
4) also grown in Lazio and Turkey

Question 13

What makes this hazelnut so special?

Answer 13

1) High monosaturated fat
2) richer, smoother paste

Question 14

Name a cookie made with hazelnut.

Answer 14

Bruttimabuoni

1) brutti = ugly, ma buoni = but good
2) egg white, sugar, toasted hazelnuts
- some add almonds
- no flour = GF

Question 15

What is the grand cru amaretto?

Answer 15

Amaretto Morbido di Mombaruzzo

1) “amaretto” = slightly bitter
2) pastry shop = Moriondo Carolo
3) egg white, sugar, sweet almonds, bitter almonds (sometimes)
- no flour = gluten free