ItalianWineFact.com
Welcome
The vision of ItalianWineFact is to bring you the best insight to the quality of Italian Wine.
Mapping the best winemakers to the best wines.
You will find descriptions of the best Italian wines linked to the best winemakers and vineyards.
For every winemaker there are link to their websites addresses emails and phone numbers.
For all wines and winemakers there are direct links to where to buy, and links to wine ratings.
There are driving directions to every winemaker directly from your current location, and satellite navigation, if you use a smart phone.
You will also find interactive wine maps with all the winemakers marked, and interactive maps for the best cru's, and tasting notes for some of the best wines.
It's all mapped together, and works across all your devices.
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A consumer advice
The Italian wine classification system - unsurprising - can not be used as a guide for the individual wines quality. As always, it is first and foremost the individual winemakers skills in interaction with the climate, soil and grape material, which makes up the quality.
To find the best quality of Italian wine, it is essential to know the best winemakers within each wine. That is exactly the vision of this guide - to bring you the best insight to the quality of Italian wine, - making it easier for you to explore the beautiful Italian wine chaos - and finding the highest quality within each wine.
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The content
Here you will find information about:
205 of the best Italian wines - all with detailed descriptions and links to the most important, influential and quality-conscious winemakers.
Descriptions of the 572 most important, influential and quality-conscious winemakers mapped to their best wines - and with links, emails, phone numbers, maps and driving directions to each winemaker.
Detailed information of all 20 Italian wine regions, where all 205 wines and 572 winemakers are mapped and show on interactive maps.
109 Danish wine importers which import 478 (83.5%) of the best winemakers, - all with contact information - websites, email and phone number.
Description of 90 characteristic Italian grapes.
Description of 89 of the very best cru's with interactive maps from Barolo, Barbaresco and Valtellina Superiore.
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Sources to quality
The wines and wine producers inside ItalianWineFact.com are selected based on their general reputation in the wine world in relations to quality of their wines. With quality is meant the following elements in the wine: Balance, length, depth, complexity, finish and typicity.
Balance
The relationship of four components - sweetness, acidity, tannin, and alcohol - to one another. A wine is balanced when nothing sticks out as you taste it, like harsh tannin or too much sweetness.
Length
Used to describe a wine that gives an impression of going all the way on the palate - you can taste it across the full length of your tongue - rather than stopping short halfway. Many wines today are very up front on the palate - they make a big impression as soon as you taste them - but they don't go the distance in your mouth. They are short. Generally, high alcohol or excess tannin is to blame. Length is a sure sign of high quality.
Depth
This is another subjective, unmeasurable attribute of a high-quality wine. A wine has depth when it seems to have a dimension of verticality - that is, it does not taste flat and one-dimensional in your mouth. A flat wine can never be great.
Complexity
A wine that keeps revealing different things about itself, always showing you a new flavor or impression - a wine that has complexity - is usually considered better quality.
Finish
The impression a wine leaves in the back of your mouth and in your throat after you have swallowed it is its finish or aftertaste. In a good wine, you can still perceive the wine's flavors - such as fruitiness or spiciness - at that point.
Typicity In order to judge whether a wine is true to its type, you have to know how that type is supposed to taste. So you have to know the textbook characteristics of wines made from the major grape varieties and wines of the world's classic wine regions.
