Venezia

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The climate of the Venezia DOC area is defined as humid temperate, owing to the latitude, the proximity of the sea and the mountains, the lagoon areas and the flat terrain.
• The soils formed through the deposition of alluvial materials originating from the melting of Alpine and pre-Alpine glaciers and from the action of the Brenta, Piave, Tagliamento and Livenza rivers.
• The plain is divided into upper and lower plain, separated by the resurgence-spring belt, with the upper plain characterised by gravelly alluvial fans of fluvioglacial and fluvial origin.
• Moving south beyond the resurgence-spring belt, the gravel fan gives way to deposits with increasing percentages of sand, with a finer texture due to the presence of silt and clay.
• On looser, skeleton-rich soils white varieties are generally grown, while clay soils are given over to red-berried varieties.

• The development of local viticulture received a strong boost from the Republic of Venice with the birth of the «stato de terra», followed by a great decline in the eighteenth century and part of the nineteenth.
• After the frost damage of 1985, the wine sector renewed its vineyards with new planting densities and clonal choices geared toward higher wine quality.
• The grape varieties historically present in the production area include Pinot nero, Pinot grigio, Pinot bianco, Traminer, Tocai friulano, Verduzzo, Glera and Raboso.
• It is a well-established local tradition to place grapes destined for passito wines in the fruttaio, often after appassimento on the vine, with Verduzzo trevigiano and friulano especially suited to this practice.

• The wines show colours from straw yellow to golden, achieved through more or less prolonged maceration, with intense, refined and persistent aromas.
• Red and rosé wines have greater body, structure and high colour intensity that is retained even over the years, with aromas that can show jam, wild berries, tobacco or herbaceous notes.

• Temperature swings in the pre-harvest period give the wines intense, refined and persistent aromas, while gravelly soils in the north and silty-clay soils in the south give harmonious, dry and savoury flavours.

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-A0517
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Vini Venezia