Italy (意大利) - The Northwest
Asti (阿斯蒂)

Asti is located in the southeastern portion of the Piedmont region near the town of Asti, this DOCG area produces Italy’s most famous Sparkling Wine beside Lombardy. Asti Spumante shares this DOCG with a related wine, Moscato d’Asti, which is made similarly, but in a Frizzy (instead of fully sparkling) […]

Italy (意大利) - The Northwest
Piedmont (皮埃蒙特)

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Piedmont means “Foot of the mountain” (Italian: Piedmonte; French: Piémont). It is a major and an important wine-producing region in northwestern Italy. Piedmont is near or at the base of the Alps, which create the natural boundary between Italy and its two neighbors France and Switzerland.
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Italy (意大利)
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If you look at the map of Italy on the cover, you can see the regions that make up the Northwest: Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna.
Though Emilia-Romagna runs all the way to the east coast of Italy, it is probably included in […]

Italy (意大利)

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Italy is the world’s largest wine producer, with production just under 25 percent of the world’s total. It’s also the greatest wine consumer with most wines consumed locally; although second to France in per capita consumption Italy’s a land of vast geographic diversity ranging from its northern cool-temperature vineyards […]