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If Italian sparkling wines are the category that has kept the overall accounts of the sector in the positive in recent years, part of the credit goes to the growth of Metodo Classico, from Franciacorta to Trentodoc, from Alta Langa to Oltrepò Pavese. From the recovery of historical territories such as Asti, to the birth, over the years, of many dif...

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Prosecco is so mass produced that it’s important to understand the regions that are making quality Prosecco including Asolo and its neighbor Conegliano Valdobbiadene. Today we focus on the Prosecco wines of Asolo that are named after the town itself within the Treviso province of the Veneto region in northeastern Italy. Located only about 1 hour no...

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During the centuries before unification, the Italian peninsula was an amalgam of kingdoms, republics, city-states, principalities, duchies and marquisates, the domains of an assortment of male sovereigns, doges and lords of different rank. But a number of women from the Middle Ages (e.g., Matilda of Tuscany) to the 19th century managed to take cont...

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