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# 50 • DECEMBER 28 , 2014
# 50 • DECEMBER 28 , 2014
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ITALIAN WINE:
WINES OF THE LAZIO
WINE REGION
J
ust like the United States has every
state producing wine, so does Italy
with wine regions. Today we're going
to cover the Lazio region, also known
as Latium. Without knowing it most of
you will be familiar with it or have even
been to it as it houses the capital of
Italy, Roma.
A lot of the wine in the Lazio region
is white and is made mostly from the
trebbiano or malvasia grapes. There
are 25 DOC wine regions within Lazio.
One of the DOC regions you may have
heard of or have tried yourself is Frascati, but not many of the wines from
this region will pop into your mind firsthand when you think of Italian wines.
Most of the wines in this region 6