When fall arrives bringing with its lower temperatures and a generale change in the weather it mostly impacts on the availability of food products that can influence what wine to drink, keeping in mind the combinations which are a very important aspect when mixing wine and food. With the fall, in fact, tables are filled with truffles, pumpkins, chestnuts, figs, grapes but also game.. The white wine you are going to be needing then will have a scent of the forest, red berries, grapes, without too much alcoholic content. The Italian excellences in this specific field are many so we will have to offer you a limited selection..
Roero Arneis
The Roero Arneis is a DOCG white wine from Piemonte, with a production area that includes nineteen towns that belong to the province of Cuneo, on the banks of the river Tanaro. About 95% is made of white Arneis grapes, with the remainder being made of other grapes from Piemonte.
The Roero is a dry white wine, it comes in a straw yellow color with lightly amber hints, a delicate scent, cool and grassy; its flavor is dry, pleasingly bitter and grassy. It goes well with seasoned cheese, robust-flavored dishes or meat and fish based dishes, and it lends itself to aperitifs and entrees.
Pigato
The Pigato is a vineyard from from Liguria, although it comes from Greece originally, from which it came in the Middle Ages. It is considered a version of Vermentino, and it is cultivated on the hills, in an area near the sea.
Its straw yellow color, which becomes golden when aged, and the flavor is dry and sapid, with hints of the mediterranean scrub and peaches. It needs to be consumed within three years after production, without aging it too much.
In terms of culinary matching, it goes well with anchovies and sea salad, with pasta first courses, pesto alla genovese, potatoes and green beans, and with the traditional Ligurian Cappon Magro.
Müller-Thurgau
The Müller-Thurgau is a vineyard from Geisenheim, in Germany, but it is widely used in Trentino Alto-Adige (and other places), especially in Val di Cembra.
The wine comes in paper white and light straw yellow, with green hues. The scent has light aromatic hints, grassy and spicy notes, fruity hints of white peach and floral, with a pleasing and delicate scent, whilst the flavor is dry, sapid, fresh and tangy, in some cases with hints of peach.
The wines obtained from Müller-Thurgau, which usually are enjoyed young, go well with entrees, seafood and aperitifs.
Ribolla gialla
It is produced exclusively in the Friuli Venezia-Giulia region, especially in the area of the Collio and on the Eastern hills, between Gorizia and Udine.
Its color is mainly straw yellow, the aroma is delicate and floral, the scent intense and harmonic, fruity and citrusy. Light and smooth, it is a very versatile wine, suitable to a wide range of occasions in the day, from aperitif to dinner. It is recommended as aperitif with fresh cheese and raw vegetables, white meat, seafood, shellfish. It goes particularly well with smoked salmon.
Vernaccia di San Giminiano
According to regulations, the Tuscan Vernaccia di San Giminiano is produced exclusively in the territory of San Giminiano, with at least 85% of the homonymous vineyard, and the remaining part of regional grapes. There is also a Riserve (reserve) version, obtained with a selection of top grapes, with an ageing process of at least eleven months in the cellar, and three months bottled.
This wine is characterized by a straw yellow with golden hues, accentuated as time goes by. The scent is fine and delicate with fruity and floral hints right from the beginning. With aging, on the other hand, it released a typical mineral hint. To the palate it feels dry, harmonic and sapid.
In a culinary context, it goes extremely well with mediterranean cuisine, and it is ideal when couples with first courses with white sauces, with ribollita and with seafood dishes. Also, it is enhanced by fried food and eggs as well as white meat.
Fiano
The Fiano di Avellino is a DOCG, whose production is allowed only in the homonymous province. It is one of the most important vineyards in Campania, able to produce one of the most complex white wines in Italy.
The organoleptic qualities of the Fiano are extremely complex: the smell is very fine, with hints that go from fruity to floral. The mouthfeel, on the other hand, has an imposing structure and acidity that is conducive to aging, featuring sapid and mineral hints.
Ideal when coupled with elaborate seafood dishes rich in flavor, and with shellfish.
Greco di Tufo
The DOCG production area of the Greco di Tufo is composed of eight towns of the province of Avellino, including Tufo, Altavilla and Montefusco. It is one of the few Italian white wines that lends itself perfectly to aging.
Of an intense straw yellow color, it has a strong scent, pleasing and fine. To the palate it confirms its intensity and length with a dry and harmonic taste.
Delicious when couples with seafood and shellfish dishes, fresh cheese, porcini mushroom risotto. Surprising is the result when coupled with mozzarella di bufala. In its spumante version it goes well with cold aperitifs and entrees, hams and cold cuts.
Vermentino di Sardegna
The four main Sardinian provinces make up the production area of the Vermentino di Sardegna Doc.
This wine comes with a color that ranges from paper white to straw yellow, with light green hues. The smell is typically delicate and pleasant, whilst the taste is dry, sweet, tangy, and with a bitter aftertaste.
It is to be tasted coupled with seafood entrees, oysters and shellfish.
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