Article: Wine Column; O Sole Mio (IV).

The Piedmonte wine region of Northern Italy is the second best known appellation next to Tuscany, the home of Chianti located in central Italy. As a non-Italian wine connoisseur, knowledge of these two Italian appellations will undoubtedly make you an instant expert on Italian wines. The reason is that any Italian wines you will likely encounter in a wine shop around the world will have been produced either in Piedmonte or Tuscany.

Unlike the Tuscan appellation, Piedmonte is heavy influenced, or vice versa, by the French wine culture as it is located close to the border of that country as well as Switzerland. It is also much less traveled by tourists compared to ...

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