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)
The Northwest
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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 […]

Southern Rhone
Côtes du Rhone (芳莎丽庄园)

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Classified in 1937, the Cotes du Rhone is an enormous appellation encompassing red, white and rosé wines covering an area of 40,300 ha and producing a crop that is 3 times larger than Beaujolais and almost as much as Bordeaux. Although this wine […]

Southern Rhone
Gigondas (吉恭达斯)

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Gigondas has been renowned for the quality of its wines since Roman times although it was not really until Gigondas was classified as a Côtes du Rhône Villages in 1966 that it really began to realise its potential. It achieved AC status in 1971 and today produces […]

Southern Rhone
Châteauneuf-du-Pape

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This is probably one of the most famous Rhone wine regions to the hearts of Asian wine lovers. In terms of size, Châteauneuf-du-Pape is the largest and most important appellation in the southern Rhone. There are over 300 hectares of vineyards and over 80 growers […]