Italy - Veneto Flashcards
What is the approximate latitude of the Veneto?
Venice sits at 45 degrees North
What does Colli mean in Italian?
Many things, but in the context of wine, hills*
What are the important rivers of the Veneto?
Po, Adige, Brenta, Piave, Livenza, Tagliamento
What are the important cities of Veneto?
Verona, Vinceza, Padua, Treviso, Venice
What is the overall Climate of the Veneto
Moderate Continental
What is produced in the Lugana DOC?
Light, pleasant whites based on the Turbiana grape variety.
What is another name for Turbiana? To what variety is it closely related?
Trebbiano Lugana, closely related to Trebbiano di Soave, aka verdicchio.
Very bright acidity, fresh citrus, tell-tale almond notes that range from bitter while young to honied marzipan with age.
Where is Lugana located?
South of Lake Garda, West of Bardolino.
Shared between Veneto & Lombardy
What is produced in Bianco di Custoza?
dry white, passito sweet whites, and bubbles based on blends of cortese, friulano, garganega, & trebbiano toscano.
Where is the Custoza DOC?
Overlapping and south of Bardolino. Considered by some Bardolino for white wine due to the proximity & overlap.
What states encompass the Trevenezie IGT and the delle Venezie DOC?
Veneto, Friuli, & Trentino-Alto Adige
Where is Valpolicella? What wines does it produce & What DOC(G)s must you know?
Alpine foothills N of Verona
Between Bardolino & Valdadige to the West, and Soave to the East.
Dry or Sweet still reds based on corvina, corvinone, & rondenella, using the appassimento method
Valpolicella DOC +/- Classico
Valpolicella Ripasso DOC
Recioto della Valpolicella DOCG
Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG
Where is Soave? What wines does it produce? What DOC(G)s must you know?
Soave is east of Valpolicella, west of Vinceza & Gambarella.
Soave produces still white of 70+% garganega
Chardonnay and/or trebbiano di Soave (verdicchio)
There’s a classico zone; know
Soave DOC
Soave Superiore DOCG
Recioto di Soave DOCG
Where is Gambellara? What wines does it produce and what appellations should you know?
Think of it as poor-man’s Soave. Garganega based still whites immediately east of Soave.
Gambellara DOC
Recioto di Gambellara DOCG
Where is Colli Euganei? What wine does it produce and what appellations should you know?
Between Colli Berici and Bangnoli DOCs. Produces a sweet white from Fior d’Arancio, literally “orange blossom” and a member of the muscat family also known as Moscato Giallo; this wine is produced in a spumante or a very sweet passito style.
Very sweet and delightfully floral, their perfect pair is local biscotti & pastries. Think of it as the Vin Santo of Veneto.
Know Colli Euganei DOC
& Colli Euganei Fior d’Arancio DOCG
Where is Bagnoli? What wine does it produce and what appellations should you know?
Bagnoli is on the Adige river, south and a bit east of Colli Euganei.
It’s one of many regions that makes wine from the Raboso grape. It gets its name from the italian word for angry, rabid or aggressive-a likely nod to the aggressive acid & tannin it provides.
Know Bagnoli DOC and Bagnoli Friularo DOCG. Friularo is the local name for Raboso Veronese. Dry, late harvest (Vendemmia Tardiva), and passito styles are made; all must be 90% Friularo.
What are the two DOCGs for Prosecco?
Asolo Prosecco DOCG &
Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco DOCG
What other DOCGs overlap with each prosecco DOCG?
Montello Rosso DOCG with Asolo.
Makes bordeaux style wines with 85% cab, cab franc, merlot, and/or carmenere.
Colli di Conegliano makes still reds & whites
Reds of bordeaux varieties: cab, cab franc, merlot
Whites based on manzoni bianco with others pinot bianco, chard, sauvblanc, & riesling allowed to blend in.
Manzoni bianco produces a full-bodied yet fresh white with spicy floral aromatics and a touch of minerality. It’s a cross between pinot bianco & riesling, performed by Luigi Manzoni at the famous oenology college in Conegliano.
What are the boundaries of prosecco & what are its DOC rules?
Covers NE Veneto & all of Friuli!
Heart of historic prosecco production are the veneto DOCGs
must be 85% glera, minimum
rose prosecco can now be produced with 15% pinot nero fermented on its skins
Where is Piave? What wines does it produce & what appellations must we know?
Piave is on the Piave river in North East Veneto, east of the prosecco DOGs and west of Lison.
Piave DOC makes dry & appassimento wines from a range of grapes.
Piave Malanotte DOCG only produces Raboso wines. Considered the finest Italian reds east of Valpolicella. Some of the strictest production standards in Europe.
70% minimum Raboso Piave
up to 30% less regarded Raboso Veronese
up to 5% other.
Aged 3 years prior to release
15% min to 30% max passito grapes.
Where is Lison? What wines does it produce & what appellations must we know?
Lison is at Veneto’s North Eastern Edge, just East of Piave
Bordered by the Livenza & Tagliamenta rivers
Lison DOCG only approved for whites based on Friulano, unsurprising considering that Lison DOCG is shared by Fruili to the East.
Lison-Pramaggiore DOC produces range of red & whites from indigenous & international varieties
