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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| The Big Picture of Italian Wine | |
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| The Wine Regions of Northern Italy | |
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| The Wine Regions of Central Italy | |
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| The Wine Regions of Southern Italy | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Appendixes.Icons Used in This Book | |
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| The Big Picture of Italian Wine | |
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| Born to Make Wine | |
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| Wine to Boot | |
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| From the Alps to almost Africa | |
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| Diverse conditions, diverse wines | |
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| Italian Wine Styles Today | |
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| The Italian prototype | |
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| Red, white, and beyond | |
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| Grapes from Near and Far | |
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| Italy's Curious Varieties | |
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| Native talents | |
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| Immigrants and migrants | |
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| The Major Grapes | |
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| Reds aplenty | |
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| Over-achieving whites | |
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| The Language of the Label | |
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| The Name Game | |
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| The DOC calls | |
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| Non-DOC/G wines | |
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| Putting faith in the DOC | |
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| Common Wine Label Words | |
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| The Wine Regions of Northern Italy | |
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| The Wines of Piedmont | |
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| The Majesty of Piedmont | |
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| The wines of Piedmont | |
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| The grapes of Piedmont | |
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| Wines of the Alba Area | |
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| Barolo | |
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| Barbaresco | |
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| Barbera, Dolcetto, and Nebbiolo of Alba | |
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| Roero and Roero Arneis | |
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| Other DOC wines of Alba | |
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| Visiting the Alba-Asti area | |
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| The Wines of Southeastern Piedmont | |
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| Asti DOCG | |
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| Barbera d'Asti | |
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| Other varietal wines | |
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| Gavi DOCG | |
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| Other wines of Piedmont's southeast | |
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| Northern Piedmont | |
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| Carema and Caluso | |
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| Vercelli and Novara hills wines | |
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| Other Piedmont Wines | |
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| Other Northwest Regions | |
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| Alpine Valle d'Aosta | |
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| Red wines from cool climes | |
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| Regional and varietal wines | |
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| Liguria: The Riviera | |
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| Liguria's vineyards and wines | |
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| Ligurian wine producers | |
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| North-Central Italy | |
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| Lombardy Has It All | |
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| The Valtellina: Nebbiolo's most austere face | |
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| Oltrepo Pavese: Sparkling wines and more | |
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| Franciacorta: Sparklers with style | |
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| Lake Garda's vineyards | |
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| Other Lombardy DOC wines | |
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| Emilia-Romagna: One Region, Really Two | |
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| Emilia's beloved Lambrusco | |
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| The hillside wines of Emilia | |
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| The wines of Romagna | |
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| Northeastern Italy | |
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| Trentino-Alto Adige: One Region, Two Cultures | |
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| The wines of Alto Adige | |
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| The wines of Trentino | |
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| Veneto: Verona to Venice | |
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| Verona's major wines | |
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| Wines of the Central Hills | |
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| Wines of eastern Veneto | |
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| Friuli-Venezia Giulia: The Great White Way | |
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| The wines of Friuli | |
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| Other Friuli DOC wines | |
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| The Wine Regions of Central Italy | |
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| The Wines of Tuscany | |
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| The Big Picture of Tuscany | |
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| The Land of Chianti | |
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| The range of Chianti wines | |
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| Chianti Classico | |
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| Chianti | |
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| Pomino, San Gimignano, and other Chianti neighbors | |
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| Monumental Montalcino | |
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| Brunello di Montalcino | |
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| Other wines of Montalcino | |
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| The "Noble Wine" of Montepulciano | |
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| Other Montepulciano DOC wines | |
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| Montepulciano-area producers | |
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| Carmignano | |
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| Super-Tuscan Wines-The Winds of Change | |
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| Tuscany's "Hot" Coast | |
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| Bolgheri | |
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| Val di Cornia | |
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| Grosseto's new frontier | |
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| Other Tuscan Wines | |
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| The Wines of Central Italy | |
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| Umbria: The Inland Region | |
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| Orvieto | |
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| Torgiano | |
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| Sagrantino di Montefalco | |
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| Umbria's other DOC wines | |
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| Recommended Umbrian wineries | |
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| Marches, on the Adriatic | |
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| Verdicchio | |
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| Rosso Conero and Rosso Piceno | |
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| Marche's other DOC wines | |
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| Marche wines to buy | |
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| Mountainous Abruzzo | |
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| Abruzzo's vineyards and wines | |
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| Abruzzo wines worth buying | |
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| Forgotten Molise | |
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| Molise's two DOC wines | |
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| The lone Molise wine producer | |
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| Latium: Rome's Region | |
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| Frascati and company, from Rome's hills | |
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| Northern Latium wines | |
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| Latium's South Coast | |
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| Southeast Latium | |
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| Latium wine producers | |
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| The Wine Regions of Southern Italy | |
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