Ghemme

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The territory of Ghemme lies in northern Piedmont, on the border with the Valsesia, near Monte Rosa, with Monte Fenera to the north and Lakes Maggiore and Orta to the northwest.
• During the glacial period, the glaciers of Monte Rosa extended as far as the plain, where today extensive irrigated land cultivated with rice and cereals is found.
• The retreat of the glaciers created a series of moraines that form a natural transition between the mountains and the plain.
• The hills extend from north to south across soils of rocks and debris of varying composition, with a surface layer of clays, kaolins, and tuffs, more compact and deep on the plateau and looser and more gravelly along the western slopes.
• The soils of the area are rich in dissolved mineral salts, absorbed by the rootlets of the vine.

• An inscription on a stone tablet attributable to the Roman senator Vibius Crispus, discovered near Ghemme, attests to the existence of viticulture as early as the first century, when the locality was known as Agamium. (via Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0)
• The territory has a tradition of vine cultivation accumulated and handed down over millennia, and the wine of Ghemme was already celebrated in the time of Pliny the Elder.
• Since the 1970s the wine sector has regained full momentum, drawing on many years of experience in supervised and integrated pest management.

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-A1263
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Tutela Nebbioli Alto Piemonte