Abboccato
lightly sweet
Amabile semisweet
Annata vintage year
Bianco white
Botte cask or barrel
Bottiglia bottle
Brut dry
Cantina Sociale cooperative winery
Cantine cellars
Casa Vinicola winery
Cascina farmhouse, often used for estate
Cerasuolo cherry-hued rose
Chiaretto deep rose
Classico a geographic term applied to DOC or DOCG wine; refers to the
central area of a production zone
Consorzio consortium of producers
Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC) a wine type recognized and
regulated by Italy's federal government
Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG) is an even more
stringent regulation guaranteeing that the wine meets standards of taste and
quality.
Dolce sweet
Enoteca wine library, public or commercial
Etichetta label
Fattoria farm or estate
Fermentazione naturale natural CO2 in bubbly wine
Frizzante or Frizzantino fizzy or faintly fizzy
Imbottigliato all'origine estate bottled
Imbottigliato nella zona di Productione bottled in the production area
INE seal on all bottles exported to North America
Invecchiato aged
Liquoroso strong wine
Masseria farm or estate
Metodo charmat, classico or tradizionale terms for sparkling wine made by
the sealed tank or by the bottle fermentation method
Passito or Passita wine made from semi-dried grapes
Podere small farm or estate
Recioto a
special wine made from semi-dried grapes. Unless accompanied by "Amarone" it
will be sweet.
Riserva a DOC wine with extra cask aging at the winery
Rosato rose
Rosso red
Secco dry
Semisecco medium sweet, usually in sparkling wine
Spumante sparkling wine
Superiore a higher alcohol style of DOC wine Tenuta farm or estate
Uva grape
Vecchio old, to describe aged DOC wines
Vendemmia vintage year
Vigna or Vigneto vineyard
Vignaiolo/Viticoltore terms for grape power
Vino da tavola table wine. In itself this term does not imply any particular
quality level
Vino novello new wine, usually red, that must be bottled within the year of
the harvest
Vino typico an emerging category of wines which will be one step below the
DOC level
Vitigno vine or grape variety
Vivace lively, as in lightly bubbly wines
VQPRD the Common Market symbol for DOC wine
VSQPRD the Common Market symbol for a sparkling DOC wine |
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