{"id":38100,"date":"2022-05-13T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.xtrawine.com\/?p=38100"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:29:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T09:29:49","slug":"xtrawinexperience-episode-6-piedmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.xtrawine.com\/en\/xtrawinexperience-episode-6-piedmont\/","title":{"rendered":"xtraWinexperience episode 6: Piedmont"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

xtraWineXperience<\/strong><\/a> continues and lands in Piedmont to discover the region’s superb wines and rich culinary culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Piedmont, viticulture plays an important role in the region’s overall agricultural production, with 2,600,000 hl of wine produced each year and 118,610 acres of land dedicated to grape cultivation. Piedmont also produces 17 DOCG and 42 DOC wines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piedmont\u2019s viticulture<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Viticulture is a traditional and major agricultural industry in the Piedmont.

Winemaking can be traced back to Celtic-Ligurian tribes that lived in the area 500 years before the Romans. 
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The Etruscans are said to have influenced the Celts’ vine cultivation and growth techniques. It is said that the Celts who settled in Piedmont began to plant grapes and, as a result, produce wine in the region.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Piedmont<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

However, it was during the Middle Ages that some places developed as good wine-producing terrain. Among them are Monferrato<\/a>, Langa<\/a>, and Alto Piemonte<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Piedmont is one of the world’s most well-known wine regions, well-known for producing significant wines like as Barolo<\/a>, Barbaresco<\/a>, and Gattinara<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Red wines, however, are not the only wonders of this region. Important white wines from Piedmont include Roero Arneis<\/a> and Gavi. Most noteworthy, it is the birthplace of the famous Asti Spumante<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piedmont: <\/strong>red wines<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On xtraWine<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 you can find the best and award winning wines from this stunning region but today we will introduce the <\/em>wine: Barolo<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internationally renown, this wine perhaps best represents Italy in the world. The end of the 1980s marked a historic change in the world of Barolo. Its producers started two schools of production and thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the one hand, the modernists, who chose to produce highly concentrated Barolos aged in new barriques; on the other, the traditionalists, who followed the more usual route of long macerations on the skins and classic refinement in large barrels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

xtraWinexperience will talk about this philosophy later on this year, when we will meet the iconic La Spinetta<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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xtraWine wines: Barolo La Spinetta<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Not only red wines: white and sparkling wines<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The white muscat grape vines are outnumbered by the red grape vines by about half, are the grapes from which the Asti Spumante<\/strong> and Moscato d’Asti<\/strong> are obtained; of the first, more than 80 million bottles were produced in 2002, accounting for one-third of all national sparkling wine production and roughly half of the region’s VQPRD, the majority of which was sold on foreign markets where it is the highest estimator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piedmont is in fact known also for its sparkling wines or \u00a0grandi spumanti<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contratto-La Spinetta<\/strong><\/a> sparkling wines\u00a0 are proof of the quality of white grapes and vines produced in this region. We have tasted some of this wineries\u2019 best wines with Journalist Roberto Parodi and his Chi Assaggia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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