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Article #51: I Love Italian Wine And Food - The Fruili-venezia Giuli Region

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If you are looking for fine Italian wine Tazzelenghe, which means tongue cutter in
and food, consider the Friuli-Venezia the local dialect. While I have never
Giuli region of northern Italy. You may tasted any wines based on this grape, I
find a bargain, and I hope that you'll can guess that they won't be delicate.
have fun on this fact-filled wine Before we reviewing the Friuli wine and
education tour. cheese that we were lucky enough to
Friuli-Venezia Giuli is a mountainous purchase at a local wine store and a
area tucked away in the northeast corner local Italian food store, here are a few
Italy, bordering on Austria and Slovenia. suggestions of what to eat with
Experts believe that Friuli-Venezia Giuli indigenous wines when touring this
was first inhabited twenty thousand years beautiful region.
ago. Like most regions of Italy, it has Start with Cjalzons con Ripieno di
belonged to many nations over the years. Cioccolata e Spinaci, Chocolate and
Unlike most regions of Italy, it remains Spinach Filled Pasta with Smoked Ricotta.
multicultural, an exceptional mixture of Then try Capesante alla Triestina,
Italian, Austrian, and Slavic influences. Broiled Scallops and Oysters with
To make this article easier to read, we Watercress. And for dessert, indulge
will replace the region's full name by yourself with Strucolo di Ricotta,
its first part, Friuli. The total Ricotta Strudel. If you are like me, you
population is less than 1.2 million. think of Austria or Hungary, when you
While Friuli is home to a wide variety of hear the word Strudel.
agricultural products, most farmers don't OUR WINE REVIEW POLICY While we have
get rich. The farms tend to be small and communicated with well over a thousand
much of the land is unfertile, suitable Italian wine producers and merchants to
only for grazing and grapes. help prepare these articles, our policy
Unfortunately the Adriatic sea is in poor is clear. All wines that we taste and
condition and fishing is on the decline. review are purchased at the full retail
However, a wide variety of seafood is price.
available. Friuli's best-known food is Wine Reviewed
San Daniele prosciutto, an uncooked ham Pighin Pinot Grigio 2005 Grave del Fruili
aged in sea salt for over a year. 12.5% alcohol about $13.50
Gourmets debate whether this ham or its I'll start by quoting the marketing
cousin prosciutto di Parma from the materials. "Toast, white flowers and
Emilia-Romagna region in northwestern mineral on the involved nose, this
Italy is the best ham in the world. light-bodied white is all about zing,
Friuli's administrative center is verve, and refreshing citrus flavors.
Trieste, which only became part of Italy Some notes of pit fruit, but mainly built
in 1954. This city was once the principle to match up to seafood. Try with friends
port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Like and grilled scampi drizzled with lemon
Vienna, Austria, Trieste is filled with juice."
cafés. It is also home to the famous I first tasted this wine with sesame seed
International Center for Theoretical covered filo dough stuffed with hamburger
Physics. meat and accompanied by zucchini in a
Friuli devotes about one hundred fifty tomato sauce. It was pleasantly acidic
thousand acres to grapevines, it ranks and fruity providing lemon and other
14th among the 20 Italian regions. Its citrus flavors. I liked it with a
total annual wine production is about 27 chocolate cake labeled strudel which
million gallons, giving it a 13th place. intensified the wine's acidity. I don't
Approximately 48% of its wine production think that any Friuli residents would
is red or rosé (only a little rosé), have called that cake strudel, but this
leaving 52% for white. The region review is about the wine, and not the
produces 9 DOC wines. DOC stands for cake.
Denominazione di Origine Controllata, My next food pairing was with whole-wheat
which may be translated as Denomination pasta in a spicy meat sauce. The wine
of Controlled Origin, presumably a stepped up to the plate and handled the
high-quality wine and 1 DOCG white spice very well. It was nice and round. I
dessert wine, Ramandolo. The G in DOCG finished this meal with out of season
stands for Garantita, but there is in strawberries, in whose presence the wine
fact no guarantee that such wines are became almost sweet.
truly superior. Over 60% of Friuli wine With filet of sole poached in onions, a
carries the DOC or DOCG designation. side of brown rice, and okra in a tomato
Friuli is home to almost four dozen major sauce, the wine became more acidic and
and secondary grape varieties, about half rounder. It was quite refreshing. It was
white and half red. a sweet, acidic companion to fresh
Widely grown international white grape pomegranates. It took on a nice acidity
varieties include Pinot Grigio, often with pecan and caramel chocolate candy.
called Pinot Gris outside of Italy, Pinot Montasio is a cooked, full-fat, semi-hard
Bianco, often called Pinot Blanc outside cheese made from cow's milk and aged for
of Italy, Chardonnay, and Sauvignon several months. It has a pungent smell
Blanc. The best known strictly Italian and a strong, pasty taste. The Pinot
white varieties are Tocai Friulano and Grigio was not outmatched by this
Verduzzo Fruilano, exemplified in the powerful cheese. Strictly speaking,
DOCG wine, Ramandolo. Asiago cheese does not come from the
Widely grown international red grape Friuli region, but its neighbors
varieties include Merlot, grown in Fruili Trentino-Alto Adige and Veneto. Once
for well over one hundred years, Cabernet again, the wine changed its character to
Franc, and Cabernet Sauvignon. The match this softer cheese.
best-known strictly Italian red variety This wasn't a great wine, but it did go
is Refosco. Fruili's candidate for grape well with everything. I would most likely
variety with the most unusual name is buy it again.






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