What is the core competency of Italian wines

Characteristics of Italian wines.

Italian wines tend to have a high degree of acidity – this is because wines with strong acidity are easier to pair with food.

Soft earthy aromas – one of the best features of Italian wine is the smell and taste of the land in every bottle. The nose may have traces of mushrooms, soil, minerals, or grass. These qualities are often considered an earthy flavor that prevents wine from competing with food.

Medium-bodied – Although Italy has some excellent heavier wines (such as Barolo), most are medium-bodied. Likewise, more suitable for a variety of food dishes, they perform better without being crushed by heavy objects.

The Italian grape regions are usually divided into Northern Italy, Central Italy, and Southern Italy.

In the northern Italian region, the wines made from Nebbiolo are recognized as excellent wines in the world because of their deep black color, strong tannins, aromatic complexity, rich flavors, shelf-stable and rounded taste after aging. The sparkling wine produced in the Asti appellation is made from white muscat and is the best sparkling wine region outside of Champagne in France.

In Central Italy, the wines represented by the Chianti region are light, easy to drink, and suitable for freshness, while the classic Canti has a darker color, strong tannins, rich and delicate aromas, a rich taste, and a high potential for value-added aging.

In southern Italy, the wines are more intense and have a higher alcohol content than other wines, and there are no well-known wines.

The overall feeling of Italian wine, complex taste Another most striking feature of the aristocratic atmosphere is the high acidity, which is related to the eating habits of the Italians.

Italy is the first country in the world to make wine, and vines are planted almost all over the country. Our elegant and beautiful wine culture originated in a country with a long history of viticulture.

Italian wine has a long history, more than 4,000 years. It is said that as long as Julius Caesar conquered the land, vines would appear in that land.

Italy is currently the second largest wine producer in the world, after France. Although Italian wine is exported in large quantities all over the world, as a Mediterranean country, its inhabitants rely on wine in their daily lives, so Italy is also the largest wine consumer.

In 1963, in order to standardize and improve the effective management of the wine industry, Italy developed a classification scheme similar to the French AOC system, which divided the country's wines into daily table wines (VDT), regional table wines (IGT), AOC wines (DOC) and excellent appellation wines (DOCG). The Regional Table Wine (IGT) grade was added in 1992 and is considered to be of better quality than the average everyday table wine.

1. It has a long history and culture. Italy is the birthplace of wine, and the history of French wine is similar to that of a thousand or even drier. The first estate in French history is 2,000 years old, while the first wine estate in Italy is more than 4,000 years old.

It can be said that Italy is the country that is most qualified to become a country with wine history and cultural precipitation;

2. Grape varieties are rich and diverse. According to incomplete statistics, Italy's wine varieties are more than 1,000 to calculate, and there are as many as two or three hundred unique wine varieties in the country, rich wine varieties, unique climate and soil, coupled with different winemaking styles of wineries, these factors are arranged and combined to make wine that cannot be calculated, and there are no official statistics so far;

3. Extremely high quality potential and advantages. What's also interesting about Italian wines is that from the LGT rank, savvy importers may be able to find the equivalent of the French AOC.

4. Italian wine and food are perfectly matched to meet the requirements of consumers who have individual and unique requirements. Italian wines are just like the Italians, with unique personalities, good at innovation and adventure, and the wines they produce are basically not the same style, for those who really love wine, Italian wines are definitely a paradise for the palate; The cuisine of any part of the world can be matched by Italian wines.

Characteristics: high alcohol content, high acidity.

Italy was one of the first countries in Europe to acquire wine-growing technology, and the production and quality of Italian wine far surpassed that of France, which only came from Italy"Stealing"Come.

Italy, a mysterious and elegant country, in addition to its breathtaking art and culture, also accounts for 1 4 percent of the world's wine production. The history of winemaking in Italy has been around for more than 3,000 years.

The ancient Greeks called Italy the land of wine (Enatria). Actually, Enatria is an ancient Greek term meaning southeastern Italy. It is said that when the ancient Roman soldiers went to the battlefield, they brought grape seedlings with **, and planted grapes there when the territory expanded.

This was the beginning of the spread of grape seedlings and winemaking techniques from Italy to the rest of Europe.

On the whole, the structure of Italian wine is relatively simple, but the taste is ever-changing, the taste is stronger, more acidic, just like a passionate and sunny boy. Compared to French wine, Italy is very suitable for drinking with friends, or accompaniment to meals, and it is also more suitable for pairing with Chinese food.

Personally, I prefer Italian red wine, because you don't know what the bottle of wine tastes like, and cheap wine may be able to drink the taste of high-end wine, which is the surprise of Italian red wine.

Simple comparison: Awareness: France - high, Spain - low.

Acceptance: France – High, Spain – Low.

Price: France - high, Spain - low (this item may be the advantage of Spanish wines, because French wines are over-advertised, and the market is a little inflated, while Spanish wines have not been over-ravaged by the market).

Mystery: France - Low, Spain - High.

Everyone likes new things, and France, is not a new topic, and there are French wines that are overdeveloped and fiercely competitive, and now more and more wine merchants choose to start with Italy and Spain, after all, the old world is still a selling point for the past).

Finally, simply comparing wines, the French classification system is more perfect and harsh, and the winery can also get more market attention, so the quality of French wine is more excellent, and the grading represents the quality and taste of the wine very well. In terms of wines, whether it is the Médoc of Bordeaux or the Côte de la Céilne de Burgundy, it has attracted worldwide attention, and its technological concept has also influenced the development of global wines.

In contrast, although Spain also has a systematic classification, the quality of the wine is still difficult to guarantee. Just like a shooter, he can occasionally hit ten rings, but his performance is inconsistent or even misses the target, and the audience will naturally not be satisfied. As for the high-end wines, it is even more difficult to get their hands on.

It is said that Spain loses in the information age, and I think that for good product marketing, it is just the icing on the cake, and of course it is also an excuse for competitors. But fortunately, cheap wine in Spain is really cheap, and there is nothing bad about daily meals, after all, the requirements are not high.

Spanish wine characteristics and advantages.

Don't ignore the small label on the bottle.

Spanish DOC and DO AOC wines will have a small label printed and distributed by Spain** on the bottle. The label indicates the vintage, the region of origin, and the unique code for each bottle.

Since the wine of the legal appellation can only be used in each winery's own vineyard, and it is strictly forbidden to purchase raw materials from other channels, Spain** strictly limits the output and wine varieties of the winery according to the planting area and grape varieties of the winery, and issues a fixed number of small labels every year, so this small label is the best proof of wine quality.

1.Spanish wines are currently mainly sold in Europe and the United States.

Among them, it is the most popular country in the U.S. market and has the largest market share in the U.S., in addition to other countries in Europe, including France, Japan, and South Korea, which are also the main sales areas of Spanish wine.

2.Spanish wines are the most widely accepted by the general public. Due to the brewing tradition in Spain, the aroma of the wine is completely based on natural fruit aromas, so it is easily accepted by the general public, and the probability of incompatibility with the taste of Spanish wine in the store is much lower than in other countries.

In addition, Spain has a lot of sunshine, a dry climate, and a predominantly tempranillo grape, so the wine is very strong, heavy, high in alcohol, and rich in flavor. Shakespeare once praised Spanish wine: "Spanish sunshine in a bottle."

3.Spanish wines are undoubtedly the best value for money among Old World wines. There is no word marketing in Spanish, because in the past, Spanish wineries used to passively wait for orders after making their wines**, and only started marketing in the late 90s.

It's not like French wine, which has been watched by a lot of people in the world, and it's not like California wine, which has a professional ** to promote and hype for him, and we can get a more affordable **.

Robert Parker, the world-famous American sommelier, has the largest collection and recommendation of Spanish wines of any country, once saying that "if you don't have Spanish wine in your collection or in your store, you are not a wine lover." ”

The general characteristics are difficult to say, because the grapes used to make wine are different. The first product advantage should be **, Spain and France belong to the same Old World, but the recirculation product category, that is, low-end wine, is much cheaper than France.

Second, the control of the French production area is relatively strict, but the high-end wine is less than France, the mid-range wine is not easy to say, Spain also has three do production areas, the wine is also very good, in addition, Spain's wine production is very large, the production area control is not strict, so the packaging is also very exquisite. Here are some of the advantages over the countries of the Old World. Clause.

Third, it is in China's market base is still good, Spain can be said to be the first country to enter the Chinese market, around 2000, Spanish manufacturers in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Shanghai and other places opened a lot of offices for the expansion of the Chinese market. But it is not as famous as France, mainly because the French high-end is hyped up, and France is generally united to promote it from the political level, Spain did not do this in the early stage, and it was a little late to do it in the later stage! Nowadays, when people think of Spanish wine, they only think of cheap Spanish wine!

Spain mainly produces full-bodied and fruity wines, and Rioja is one of the most important appellations in Spain with a long history of more than 1,000 years of cultivation and is one of the few local high-quality legal appellations. All the grapes in the appellation are grown with the unique and unique grape variety Tempranillo.

It's very simple, the fame of Guojia has been accumulated!

A relatively good price!