Italian wine

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Marsala DOC, Malvasia, List of Italian IGT wines, Vin Santo, Straw wine, Prosecco, Lambrusco, Brunellopoli, Est! Est!! Est!!! di Montefiascone, Brachetto d'Acqui, Enoteca, Ecco Domani, Gambero Rosso, Aglianico del Vulture, Vino Greco, Strade dei vini e dei sapori, Sagrantino di Montefalco, Tavernello, Teran, Morellino di Scansano, Acqua pazza, Ferrari Spumante, Ramandolo. Excerpt: A list of the Italian IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) wines, in alphabetical order by region. Note that IGT wines are not produced in Piedmont or the Val'Aosta. Ravenna (Bianco in the styles normale and Frizzante; Rosato in the styles normale and Frizzante; Rosso in the styles normale, Frizzante and Novello) produced in the province of Ravenna. No IGT wines are produced in Piedmont. No IGT wines are produced in the Valle d'Aosta. Italian wine is wine produced in Italy, a country which is home to some of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world. Italy is one of the world's foremost producers, responsible for approximately one-fifth of world wine production in 2005. Italy is the second largest wine producer after France, and in 2008 the country surpassed France for the title of world's biggest producer for the first time in a decade, at nearly six billion liters. Italian wine is exported largely around the world and has market share of over 10% in most Asian countries like India. Wine is extremely popular in Italy. Italians lead the world in wine consumption by volume with 70 literes per capita consumption, compared to 25 litres in the US, 20 litres in Australia, 40 millilitres in China and 9 millilitres in India. Grapes are grown in almost every region of the country. More than 1 million vineyards are under cultivation. Etruscans and Greek settlers produced wine in the country long before the Romans started developing their own vineyards in the 2nd century BC. Roman grape-growing and winemaking was prolific and well-organized, pioneering large-scale production and storage techniques like barrel-making and bottling. A classical Italian vineyard scene, with vines growing together with olive trees. Vineyards around the town of Barolo.Although vines had been cultivated from the wild Vitis vinifera grape for millennia, it wasn't until the Greek colonization that wine-making flourished. Viticulture was introduced into Sicily and southern Italy by the Mycenae