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Name the DOCG of

🧭 Campania

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  • Aglianico del Taburno DOCG
  • Taurasi DOCG
  • Greco di Tufo DOCG
  • Fiano di Avelino DOCG
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Name the DOCs of:

🧭 Molise

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  • Biferno DOC
  • Molise DOC
  • Pentro di Isernia DOC
  • Tintilla del Molise
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Variety of:

🍇 Taurasi DOCG

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85% Aglianico minimum

🧭 Campania - Italy

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Aging rules for:

🪵 Taurasi DOCG

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  • Classic:
    ➙ 🛢️ 3 years in total
    ➙ 🍾 including 12 months in wood
  • Riserva:
    ➙ 🛢️ 4 years in total
    ➙ 🍾 including 18 months in wood
    • Riserva: 4 y. ageing incl 18 mth in wood
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Date of creation of:

🎉 Taurasi DOCG

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1993

🧭 Campania - Italy

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Minimum alcohol for

🥃 Taurasi DOCG

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  • Rosso: 12% ABV
  • Riserva: 12,5% ABV
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Style of wine produced under:

🍷 Aglianico del Taburno DOCG

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  • Rosso
  • Rosso Riserva
  • Rosato

🧭 Campania - Italy

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Minimum aging for:

🪵 Aglianico del Taburno Riserva DOCG

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🛢️ 3 years in total
➙ 🪵 including 12 months in wood
➙ 🍾 6 months in bottle

🧭 Campania - Italy

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Minimum aging for:

🪵 Aglianico del Taburno DOCG

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🛢️ 2 years in total

🧭 Campania - Italy

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Location & style of wine of:

🧭 Greco di Tufo

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Still &Traditional Method Sparkling white wines:
➙ 🍇 85% Greco
➙ 15% Coda di Volpe maximum

🧭 Campania / Italy

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Aging rules for

🍾 Spumante & Spumante Riserva
of
Greco di Tufo DOCG

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  • Spumante
    ➙ 18 months in bottle
  • Spumante Riserva
    ➙ 36 months

🦠 Process by the metodo classico method

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Location of:

🧭 Fiano di Avelino DOCG

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Campania
Italy

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Varieties for:

🍇 Fiano di Avelino DOCG

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Fiano 85% minimum
➙ + Trebbiano Toscano, Coda di Volpe, Greco

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Aging for:

🪵 Fiano di Avellino Riserva DOCG

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12 months aging
➙ No method requiered

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Location of:

🧭 Ischia DOC

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Ischia’s island
Of the coast, in the bay of Naples - Campania

🍇 White varieties Forastera + Biancolella
🍇 Red varieties: Piedirosso / Guarnaccia

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Varieties for:

🍇 Ischia DOC

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  • white:
    ➙ 40-70% Forastera + Biancolella
  • Red:
    ➙ 40-50% Piedirosso
    ➙ 40-50% Guarnaccia
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Explain briefly:

🧭 🍷 Capri DOC

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  • Bianco:
    ➙ 50% Falanghina + Greco
  • Rosso
    ➙ 80% Piedirosso

🧭 Campania / Italy

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Explain briefly:

🧭 🍷 Campi Flegrei DOC

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  • Bianco & Spumante
    ➙ 50/70%Falanghina
  • Rosso & Rosso Passito
    ➙ 50% Piedirosso + Aglianico

🧭 Campania / Italy

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Minimum aging for:

🪵 Campi Flegrei Rosso Riserva DOC

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2 years aging in total

🍇 Piedirosso based variety
🧭 Campania - Italy

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Explain briefly:

🍇 🧭 Irpinia DOC

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  • Bianco, PAssito & Spumante
    ➙ Fiano & Greco based
  • Rosso & Passito
    ➙ 50% Aglianico
  • Campi Taurasini
    ➙ 85% Aglianico

🧭 Campania - Italy

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Minimum bottle aging for:

🍾 Irpinia Spumante DOC

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18 months aging on the lees

🧭 Campania - Italy

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DOC & variety referred to:

🍇 Campi Taurasini

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Irpinia DOC
➙ 🍇 85% Aglianico minimum

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Name all DOCG of:

🧭 Puglia

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  • Castel Del Monte Bombino Nero DOCG
  • Castel del Monte Nero di Troia Riserva DOCG
  • Castel de Monte Rosso Riserva DOCG
  • Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale DOCG
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Explain briefly/

Castel de Monte Bombino Nero DOCG

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🎉 Established in 2011
🍷 Only rosato
🍇 90% Bombino Nero minimum

🧭 Puglia - Italy

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🍷 DOCG for **Rosé wine in Puglia**
**Castel del Monte Bombino Nero DOCG** 🍯 10g/L max 🎉 Est. in 2011
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# Explain briefly: **Castel del Monte Rosso Riserva DOCG**
🍇 **Min 65% Nero di Troia** *+ non aromatic grapes of the region* 🥃 13% ABV min 🪵 24 months of aging ➙ including 12 months in wood ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Aging rules for: 🪵 **Castel del Monte Rosso Riserva DOCG**
🛢️ **24 months in total** ➙ 🪵 including 12 months in wood minimum
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# Main variety for: 🍇 **Castel de Monte Rosso Riserva DOC**
**65% min Nero di Troia** ➙ *AKA Uva di Troia*
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# Name the 3 most important red varieties of: 🍇 **Puglia**
* Primitivo * Negroamaro * Nero di Troia
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# Explain briefly: 🍇 🧭 **Castel del Monte Nero di Troia Riserva DOCG**
🍇 90% of Nero di Troia 🥃 13% ABV 🍬 10g/L maximum 🎉 DOCG since 2011 ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Minimum aging of: 🪵 **Castel del Monte Nero di Troia Riserva DOCG**
🛢️ **24 months** aging in total ➙ 🪵 Including **12 months** in wood
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# Explain briefly: 🧭 🍷 **Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale DOCG**
🍇 100% Primitivo ➙ Grapes may be air-dried 🍬 50 g/L résiduel minimum 🥃 16% ABV potential ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Province of production: 🧭 **Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale DOCG**
**Taranto and Brindisi** ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Minimum residual sugar for 🍬 **Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale DOCG**
**50 g/L** ## Footnote 🥃 16% ABV potential ➙ *13% ABV acquiered*
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# Date of creation of: 🎉 **Primitivo di Manduria Dolce Naturale DOCG**
**2011** ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Minimum aging for: 🪵 **Primitivo di Manduria Riserva DOC**
**24 months aging in total** ## Footnote 🍇 100% Primitivo 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Location and style of wine of: 🧭 🍷 **Brindisi DOC**
* **Bianco**: ➙ 🍇 80% Chardonnay & Malvasia * **Rosso** ➙ 🍇 80% Negroamaro + Susumaniello ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Minimum aging for: 🪵 **Brindisi Rosso Riserva DOC**
24 months aging in total ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Explain briefly: **Copertino DOC**
* **Rosato**: ➙ 🍇 Same varieties as Rosso: Maceration take place for 12 to 24 hours * **Rosso** ➙ 🍇 80% Negroamaro + Malvasia Nera, Sangiovese, Montepulciano ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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# Explain briefly: **Salice Salentino DOC**
* **Bianco**: ➙ 🍇 80% Chardonnay + Local varieties * **Rosso & Rosato** ➙ 🍇 75% Negroamaro * **Aleatico Dolce / Licoroso** ➙ 🪵 2 years aging in total ## Footnote 🧭 Puglia - Italy
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Variety use for **dolce** wine in **Salice Salentino DOC**
**Aleatico** ➙ 🪵 24 months aging in total before release
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# DOCG of: 🧭 **Basilicata**
**Aglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG** ➙ ⛰️ *On the slopes of the volcano*
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# Explain briefly: **Aglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG**
🍇 100% Aglianico 🪨 Volcanic soil 🪵 **Superiore**: 3 years aging in total 🪵 **Riserva**: 5 years aging in total ## Footnote 🧭 Basilicata - Italy
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# Precise aging for: 🪵 **Aglianico del Vulture Superiore DOCG**
* **Superiore**: 🛢️ 3 years aging in total ➙ 🪵 Including 12 months in oak ➙ 🍾 + 12 months in bottle * **Riserva**: 🛢️ 5 years aging in total ➙ 🪵 Including 24 months in oak ➙ 🍾 + 12 months in bottle
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# DOCs of: 🧭 **Basilicata** *(4 in total)*
* Aglianico del Vulture DOC * Grottino di Roccanova DOC * Matera DOC * Terre dell Alta Val d'Agri DOC
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# Style of wine produced under: 🍷 **Aglianico del Vulture DOC**
* **Rosso** wine * **Rosso Spumante** ➙ 🍾 Made by method classico: 9 months aging in bottle ## Footnote 🧭 Basilicata - Italy
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🍷 2 DOCG for Rosé wine in all Italy
* Aglianico del Taburno * Castel del Monte Bombino Nero
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🧭 Name the sole **DOCG of Sicily**
**Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG** ➙ 🍷 Rosso only ➙ 🍇 50-70% Nero d'Avola + Frappato ## Footnote 🧭 Southern Sicily
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# Explain briefly: **Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG**
🍇 50-70% **Nero d'Avola** ➙ + 30-50% **Frappato** 🪨 Iron rich clay over a limestone based 🛢️ **Classico**: 18 months aging in total ## Footnote 🧭 Sicily - Italy
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# Varieties rules for: 🍇 Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG
50-70% **Nero d'Avola** ➙ *+ 30-50% **Frappato*** ## Footnote 🧭 Southern Sicily - Italy
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# Main soil influence in: 🪨 **Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG**
**Iron rich clay** over a limestone *Sandier on the south and East* ## Footnote 🧭 Southern Sicily - Italy
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# Leading producers of: 🏠 **Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG**
* COS * Ariana Occhipinti * Planeta * Donnafugata * Palerno di Vittoria
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# Synonym of: 🍇 **Nero d'Avola** in Sicily
**Calabrese**
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# Minimum aging for 🪵 **Cerasuolo di Vittoria Classico DOCG**
**18 months** in total ➙ no oak/wood regulations ## Footnote **Villages**: Vittoria, Comiso, Acate, Chiaromonte Gulfi, Santa Croce Camerina
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# Synonym of: 🍇 **Nerello Mantellato** in Etna DOC
**Nerello Cappuccio**
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# Style of wine of: 🍷 **Etna DOC**
* **Bianco**: 🍇 Catarrato & Carricante 🧭 **Superiore**: From **Milo** commune only * **Rosso & Rosato**: 🍇 80% Nerello Mascarese ➙ + Nerello Cappuccio * **Riserva** 🛢️4 years aging in total ➙ 🪵 Including 12 months in wood * **Spumante Bianco & Rosato**: Traditionnal method 🍇 80% Nerello Mascarese ➙ 🍾18 months in bottle ## Footnote 🧭 Eastern Sicily - Italy
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# Commune of production for: 🧭 **Etna Bianco Superiore DOC**
**Milo** ➙Eastern Etna slopes ➙ 🥃 12% ABV (instead of 11,5% for classic) ## Footnote 🧭 Eastern Sicily - Italy
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# Minimum aging for 🪵 **Etna Rosso Riserva**
🛢️ 4 years aging in total ➙ 🪵 Including 12 months in wood ## Footnote 🧭 Eastern Sicily - Italy
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# True or False: 🍾 **Spumante** can be produced in **Etna DOC**
**True** ➙ Only in Traditionnal method ➙ 🍾 18 months aging OTL
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# Leading producers of: 🏠 **Etna DOC**
* Terre NEre * Graci * Tenuta di Fessina * Planeta * Benanti * Salvo Foti * Eduardo Torres Acosta * Gaja (*From Piemonte winery, purchased vineyard in 2019*)
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# Location & style for: 🧭 🍷 **Faro DOC**
**Rosso wine only** ➙ 🍇 Nerello Mascalese based ➙ + Nerello Cappuccio & Nocera ## Footnote 🧭 North Eastern Sicily - Italy
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# Location & Style of: 🧭 🍷 **Malvasia delle Lipari DOC**
**Bianco + Passito & Liquoroso** ➙ 🍇 Malvasia delle Lipari ➙ + 5% Max Corinto Nero ## Footnote Off shore of Northern Sicily - Italy
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# Explain briefly 🧭 🍷 **Faro DOC**
**Red wine only** ➙ 🍇 45/60% Nerello Mascalese ➙ + Nerello Capuccio & Nocera ## Footnote 🧭 North Eastern Sicily - Italy
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# Explain Briefly: 🧭 🍷 **Malvasia della Lipari DOC**
**White wine only: Dry, Passito & Liquoroso** ➙ 🍇 95% Malvasia di Lipari ➙ + Corino Nero 🍬 100 g/L minimum ## Footnote 🧭 Off shore the Northern Sicily
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# Explain briefly: 🧭 🍷 **Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG**
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# Minimum Residual Sugar for: 🍬 **Malvasia delle Lipari DOC**
**100 g/L minimum**
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# White varieties of: 🍇 **Alcamo DOC**
🍷 **Bianco / Spumante / Vendemia Tardia** ➙ 🍇 60% Catarratto minimum ## Footnote 🧭 Trapani & Palermo = Eastern Sicily - Italy
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# Red varieties for: 🍇 **Alcamo DOC**
🍷 **Rosso / Riserva / Rosato** ➙ 🍇 60% Calabrese minimum + local & internationnal varieties ## Footnote 🧭 Trapani & Palermo = Eastern Sicily - Italy
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# Aging for: 🪵 **Palermo Rosso Riserva DOC**
🛢️ **24 months in total** ➙ Including 6 months in wood minimum ## Footnote 🧭 Trapani & Palermo = Eastern Sicily - Italy
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**First producer of Marsala**
**John Woodhouse** 🙋 English Port & Sherry trader ⛵️ He first fortified a wine in 1773 to preserve it during the travel to UK
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🍯 **2 sweetening agent** of **Marsala DOC**
* **Mosto Cotto**: Cooked must * **Sifone**: Mistelle like of overripe grapes ## Footnote Both are allowed only in Ambra style
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# Name the 3 style of 🍷 **Marsala DOC**
* **Oro**: White * **Ambra**: White with sweetening adjonction * **Rubino**: Rosso style ## Footnote 🧭 Western Sicily
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# White varieties of: 🍇 **Marsala DOC**
* Grillo * Ansonica: *Inzolia* * Damaschino * Catarrato ## Footnote 🍷 Used for the Oro & Ambra Styles
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# Red varieties of: 🍇 **Marsala DOC**
* Perricone * Calabrese: *Nero d'Avola* * Nerello Mascalese ## Footnote 🍷 Used for the Rubino Style only
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# Sweetness level of: 🍬 **Marsala DOC**
* **Secco**: 40 g/L max * **Semi-secco**: 40-100 g/L * **Dulce**: 100 g/L minimum
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# General aging for 🪵 **Marsala DOC**
* **Fine**: 1 year in wood * **Superiore / Vecchio**: minimum 2 years in wood * **Superiore Riserva**: minimum 4 years in wood * **Vergine / Solera**: Minimum 5 years in wood * **Vergine Riserva / Solera Riserva / Stravecchio**: Minimum 10 years in wood
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# Minimum aging for 🪵 **Fine Marsala DOC**
**1 year in wood** ➙ 🛢️ The 4 first months can be aged in tanks
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# Minimum aging for 🪵 **Superiore / Vecchio Marsala DOC**
**2 years** in cherry wood minimum
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# Minimum aging for 🪵 **Superiore Riserva Marsala DOC**
**4 years** in oak or cherry wood minimum
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# Minimum aging for 🪵 **Vergine / Solera Marsala DOC**
**5 years** in oak or cherry cask minimum
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# Minimum aging for 🪵 Stravecchio / Solera Riserva / Vergine Riserva **Marsala DOC**
**10 years** minimum in oak or cherry wood
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# Name the most important and leading producer of: 🏠 **Marsala DOC**
Marco de Bartoli
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# Synonym of: 🍇 **Muscat d'Alexandrie** in **Sicily**
**Zibibbo** ## Footnote 🧭 In particular within the island of Pantelleria
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# Synonym of: 🍇 **Zibibbo**
**Muscat of Alessandria** 🧭 In Sicily & Pantelleria
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# Style of wine produced in: 🍷 **Pantelleria DOC**
* Liquoroso * Spumante & Frizzante * Dorato * Passito * Dolce | 🍇 All produced from the Zibbibo variety
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# Italian name for: 🎋 **Bush vine**
**Alberello**
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# Minimum residual sugar for: 🍯 **Dorato di Pantelleria DOC**
**100 g/L** ➙ 🥃 *Fortified with pure alcool*
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**Mick Hucknall** is a famous singer & producer from: ...
**Etna DOC** ➙ Project started in 2001 *Rose the general image of the region* ## Footnote 🎤 Singer of a British pop group.
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# Explain the following term: 🧭 **Contrade**
**Sub-vineyard** area of **Etna DOC** ➙ *Currently 133 of them* ## Footnote = **Frazioni** in Montepulciano or **MGA** in Barolo/Barbaresco
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# Name the DOCG of: 🧭 **Sardegna**
**Vermentino di Gallura DOCG**
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# Style of wine produced under: 🍷 **Vermentino di Gallura DOCG**
* Bianco secco * Superiore * Frizzante & Spumante * Passito & Vendemia Tardia ## Footnote 🍇 95% Vermentino minimum
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# Soil & location of: 🪨 **Vermentino di Gallura DOCG**
🪨 **Poor & rocky granitic soil** 🧭 Covering 23 communes of the **Northern edge of the island**
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# Style of wine produced under: 🍷 **Cannonau di Sardeigna DOC**
* Rosso & Rosato * Rosso Riserva * Passito * Liquoroso ## Footnote 🍇 **85% Cannonau** = Grenache
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# Aging requierement for: 🛢️ **Cannonau di Sardeigna Rosso Riserva DOC**
🛢️ 2 years in total ➙ 🪵 including 6 months in wood
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# Sweetness level for: 🍬 **Cannonau di Sardeigna Passito DOC**
50 g/L minimum ## Footnote ➙ Liquoroso Dolce is also 50 g/L
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# Sub-regions of: 🧭 **Cannonau di Sardeigna DOC**
* Classico * Jerzu * Oliena * Capo Ferrato
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# Synonym of: 🧭 **Grenache** in Sicily
**Cannonau** ➙ Grenache is widely grown on the island due to history *= The island was part of the Kingdom of Aragon in early 1700's*
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# Color of the following: 1. Monica 2. Nagarus
1. Red 2. White ## Footnote 🍇 Both are local varieties of Sardegna

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