Wine All-in-One For Dummies by Ed McCarthy

Author:Ed McCarthy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Northeastern Italy: Where Whites Rule

In This Chapter

Taking a closer look at an Italian region that speaks German

Discovering Veneto’s major wine zones

Trying out Prosecco — Italy’s affordable sparkler

Considering Friuli as the home of Italy’s best white wines

In the strange — er, different — country of Italy, northeastern Italy is the most different part of all. In one region, Alto Adige, you hear and see more German than Italian. In another region, the eastern part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italian competes with Serbo-Croatian and German as the native language.

Another way in which northeastern Italy is different than the rest of the country is in wine: In all the rest of Italy, red wine dominates, but the cool Northeast, with its Austrian and Slovenian influences, is the most important part of Italy for white wine. Northeastern Italy is also particularly scenic, thanks to the splendor of the Dolomite Alps, for example, and the incomparable canals of Venice. This chapter covers three regions: Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Trentino-Alto Adige: One Region, Two Cultures

The strikingly beautiful dual region of Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy’s northernmost area, is entirely located in the branch of the eastern Alps known as the Dolomites. Austria forms its northern border, Friuli-Venezia Guilia the east, Veneto the south, and Lombardy the west; a small northwestern part borders Switzerland. Trentino, named after the regional capital, Trento, is the southern part of the region; the northern part is Alto Adige. Figure 4-1 depicts this dual region.

Figure 4-1: Trentino-Alto Adige is really two distinct subregions.

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