White wine - Cavalleri

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Also for the white wine, each Italian region has different grape varieties which characterized the wine-growing and wine-making scene of the Italian peninsula. From aromatic white wines, like those produced in Friuli Venezia Giulia, to the wines produced upland, like those from Trentino. Important varieties are the Kerner Riesling and other wines with a great body like the ones from Piedmont or in another south-central regions. The white wines from Piedmont are famous all over the world and some of them are made with varieties such as the Arneis and Timorasso, a grape variety that is suitable also for wine-making with maceration. Noteworthy is the region of Sicily that, despite being a very hot region, is produces delicious and fresh white wines like the Grillo, Ansonica and Grecanico. Foodexplore's online wine shop is always updated with new great white wines which will delight your dinners and your evenings.


Cavalleri is a winery in Erbusco, in the heart of Franciacorta. The Cavalleri family was owner of agricultural land since 1450. In Cavalleri is preserved a purchase agreement dated 1842 testifies the purchase of a vineyard which is still owned by Cavalleri called Rampaneto. Even then, the company is producing white and red wine that was sold in bulk, and only after 1967 when Franciacorta reached DOC Cavalleri began to bottle. The first bottles of Franciacorta Cavalleri saw the light in 1979 when Gian Paolo and Giovanni Cavalleri abandoned the ancient wine cellar and built it a more modern one. Today Cavalleri winery is a landmark of style in Franciacorta believing strongly in the concept blanc de blanc so thy use Chardonnay grapes only trying to express at the top level cru potentials in Franciacorta.

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