delle Venezie

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The area is protected to the north by a mountain arc that shields it from cold northerly and north-easterly air currents, while to the south it benefits from the moderating influence of the Adriatic Sea, which tempers thermal extremes.
• The territory is crossed by numerous rivers of considerable and consistent flow, in particular the Adige, Brenta, Piave, Tagliamento, and Isonzo, which form the cradle of local viticulture.
• Mean annual rainfall across the territory ranges between 700 and 1,300 mm, yet the soils have sufficient drainage capacity and the area experiences no water-deficit problems.
• The pre-Alpine and hilly areas consist predominantly of Mesozoic calcareous or calcareous-dolomitic formations, with soils of a texture well suited to water drainage.
• The flat zones are formed by alluvial deposits carried down by the rivers, with soils ranging in texture from sandy loam to sandy-silt loam and occasionally with deep silty-clay sediments.

• Venetian merchants, from the mid-fourteenth century until around 1700, controlled almost the entire market for quality wine from the eastern Mediterranean to the regions of northern Europe.
• The area's modern viticulture grew out of the training and extension work in new viticultural and winemaking techniques carried out by the schools of San Michele all'Adige and Conegliano.
• With the aim of modernising vineyard cultivation methods, sprawling training systems such as overhead pergolas (tendone) and radial systems — for example the Bellussi system — are excluded. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• Pinot grigio sparkling wine must be produced exclusively by the tank-method (rifermentazione in autoclave) and bottled in glass, with plastic stoppers prohibited. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)

• The semi-sparkling wine (frizzante) has a mousse that is essentially fine and fleeting, whereas in sparkling wines (spumanti), also in relation to the different pressure, the mousse is fine and persistent.
• On the appearance, sparkling wines (spumanti), quality wines (vini di qualità), and semi-sparkling wines (frizzanti) range from straw yellow to golden yellow, sometimes with copper or pink highlights typical of the variety.
• On the nose, sparkling and semi-sparkling wines are fruity, showing white-fleshed fruit aromas such as pear and apple through to tropical fruit, and sometimes lightly aromatic notes of white flowers and dried shell-on nuts, the latter a result of tank-method elaboration.
• On the palate, sparkling and semi-sparkling wines display a refreshing character with a well-balanced acidic component; sugar levels in sparkling wines range from dosage zéro to dry, and in semi-sparkling wines from dry to off-dry.
• Still Pinot grigio ranges on the appearance from pale straw yellow to shades that can occasionally carry copper to pink highlights; on the palate it ranges from dry to off-dry, with an acidity that is characteristic of the variety.
• The white wine of the Venezie appellation ranges on the appearance from greenish yellow to golden yellow, with an intense nose of ripe white-fleshed fruit and a palate that goes from dry to off-dry, harmonious and sometimes fresh.

• The marked diurnal temperature ranges during bunch ripening enhance and preserve the grapes' aromatic and acidic profile, and the consequent freshness of the wines.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

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Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-02360
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Tutela Vini DOC delle Venezie