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GRAPES VARIETIES
Before the scourges from America struck Italian vineyards
around the turn of the 1900th, Italy grew thousands of types, some internationally
recognised, that their feature varied from one village to the next.
For instance in Lombardia's Oltrepo' Pavese, some 250 varieties where
recorded growing in an area smaller than Burgundy's Cote d'Or. "Phyloxera",
the scourge, reduced the number drastically.
In the last 50 years the steady conversion from mixed crops to unified
vineyards has brought new order and increase planting of outstanding
varieties by cross-grafting both native and imported trees.
Still today the numbers and names remain at a staggering high level with
the continuous development of new types,
Note that certain types of wine carry the same name as the grapes they
are made from.
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For light-skinned grapes click
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