About Liguria Wines
Liguria is a thin arc of coast between the mountains and the sea, and its vineyards cling to some of the steepest terraces in Italy. Whites lead here, from crisp, saline Vermentino and the rounder Pigato to the dramatic Cinque Terre DOC grown on dry stone walls above the water. The region's most prized red is Rossese di Dolceacqua DOC, a pale, fragrant, elegant wine from the western Riviera. Sciacchetrà, the rare sweet passito of the Cinque Terre, is a local treasure. Farming these terraces is done largely by hand, which keeps volumes tiny and prices firm. Sea breezes and poor, rocky soils give the whites their salty freshness and the reds their delicacy. Much of the wine never leaves the region, drunk young with the local seafood and pesto. For visitors it is one of Italy's most distinctive and hard won wine landscapes.
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Wine from Liguria
The long littoral ribbon of land in the northwestern corner of Italy has been home to vineyards since before the Romans got there, when Etruscans ruled the region and the Greeks referred to someone from there as a ‘ligus’ (λίγυς). In the subsequent millennia Liguria became one of the most extraordinary areas of its size on earth – to this day the third smallest Italian region, it was nonetheless home to the Republic of Genoa, masters of the Tyrrhenian and Venice’s great rival in the medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean.
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