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Italian Vineyard Terms Explained
A handy guide to deciphering designations
Tags: Italy, Gregory Dal Piaz, Wine 101, history of wine, wine words, slideshow
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Great piece. very informative.
Nov 30, 2010 at 1:42 PM
Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to become more knowledgable about wine terms. Really enjoyed the article!
Nov 30, 2010 at 3:22 PM
Good article. Are you going to get into the government classification of wines like France does?
Nov 30, 2010 at 5:12 PM
Those terms seem like historic label clutter. i don't see how they help in making a wine selection. The article helps me know to ignore those terms.
Nov 30, 2010 at 5:50 PM
How nice to learn another "language" of wine. So nicely written. Thanks -
Nov 30, 2010 at 9:44 PM
chevalier
Hi Greg...Vigneto=Cru...Podere = Piece of land, Tenuta =Podere+ a Building (most of time). Bricco is used only in Piemonte it's "dialetto" a sort of slang, "Ciabot" (also dialetto ) in Piemonte is a small building, lika 2m x2m where the farmers were keeping their tools to work in the vineyard.....
Dec 01, 2010 at 2:18 AM
chevalier
...località it's a small part of town, it'a a part of the town but it's located far from it ....Ciao
Dec 01, 2010 at 2:21 AM
Is it possible to get ALL the information in a text file to print? At least at the end of the info there should be an option to print the whole thing. Having to click on each section and either print each one (waste of paper & toner) or cut & paste each section into another document is extremely annoying. The info is good but I lose patience with the whole experience.
Dec 01, 2010 at 7:18 AM
Dal Piaz
Hi Norley, page through to the last slide in the show and you'll find a link to a single page format of the article, sans images though.
Dec 01, 2010 at 10:25 AM
nice piece; useful, too. appreciate your efforts
Dec 01, 2010 at 1:48 PM
The history of the vine, if you like to read it is at
http://www.squidoo.com/italyonyourtongue
You will find where the first vine began and how, and the best link to the most popular Tuscany Cuisine wine
Dec 02, 2010 at 2:52 AM
Pevere
For pronunciations google translate is great, u can listen every word in this article and with a good pronunciations. Write just single words because voice reproduces the sequence of all words.
The article is great! Very well explained and accurate.
Dec 11, 2011 at 7:07 PM
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