Learn About the Wines That Can Be Served With Italian Dishes

Wine in Italian cuisine, as though, in any other cuisine of the world, plays a significant role. We can say that in Italy they drink wine, not less than in France. The main wine producing areas are located below the 45 parallels - in the most favorable areas for the cultivation of grapes. And it is really growing very densely and intensively, giving people amazing taste and a thick aroma of these lands.

With wine Italians cook many dishes, it puts out and soaked, and of course, wine is served to a variety of dishes. As in France, in Italy commonly grown grape varieties Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Chardonnay and Sauvignon. Often these varieties blended with local, why did they get their color (Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Muller-Thurgau grown in northern areas bordering with Switzerland and Austria).

Of course, our own Italian grape varieties, with the intoxicating hearing the names are very popular and very tasty: Red Sangiovese, Barbera, Nebbiolo, Lambrusco (which is used to make red sparkling wine, considered to be the "panacea"), white Trebbiano, Muscat, Cortese, Verduzzo, Malvasia.

As any wine-producing country, Italy is divided into provinces or regions with conventional flavoring characteristics of finished wines. Thus, Lombardy is famous for its sparkling wines, Piedmont - Barolo and Barbaresco red, white, Cortese, and Asti Spumante, Veneto Region - varieties Amarone, Valpolicella and Soave. In wine, Veneto, famous for its strong drink grappa strength of 40-50%., is produced by the distillation of squeezing from the seeds, stems and residues of grapes.

Grappa - the pride of Italy, as French cognac, Scotch, Mexican tequila or a genuine Russian vodka is the pride of their regions. Ready drink so beautifully and carefully placed in a bottle, that it deserves special attention. In the beautiful and varied forms of the bottles are placed whole fruits. As soon as the ensuing pear is placed in an empty bottle, it grows and matures in it, and when the time comes, vinicultures carefully cut the fruit, often with part of the branches, and fill grappa. After the drink infusions and scented with the fruit, its flavor is mild and sunny. A beautiful bottle with a pleasant warm hue of the drink only enhances the feeling of beauty and grace.

In Italy, are more cultivated varieties of grapes and produced more wines (almost a fifth of world production) than in any other countries. The most popular wines are: "Trebiano" - a strong yellow wine with a fruity flavor, served with light vegetarian dishes; "San Dzhoveze" - made from grapes, San Dzhoveze, saturated ruby color, dry, with excellent flavor - served with meat dishes and hard cheeses; "Canina" - bright red, sweet wine - served to dessert, a perfect match with the Roman baking "chiambella" (Ciambella); "Alba" - sweet yellow wine with a characteristic bouquet. Also worth to try "Chianti Classico" and "Lambrusco."

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