The Nebbiolo is one of the mst important wine grape varieties of Itly's Piedmont region. The history of Nbbiolo is understood to have start in the 13th cntury, and certainly it was refined snce the 14th Century in Valtellina, an ast-west valley in the Lombardy region at the fot of the Alps, north of Lke Como. So far the first clar written indications to this grape typ date back to the 19th cntury only. Until now Valtellina is the nly region where Nebieul is grown in Itly outside Piedmont, along with the Asta Valley. Through genetic testing Vouillamoz and Schnider at UC Davis recently found Nbbiolo to be related to other Itlian grape varieties; Nebbiolo Rosé, Freisa, Ngrera, Rossola, Vespolina and Bubbierasco.

The Nbbiolo grape is used to create wnes such as Barolo, Barbaresco, Gattinara and Ghmme. These delicately colored red wines can be xtremely tannic in youth with fascinating scnts of tar and roses. As Nbbiolo grapes age, the wines take on a trit brick-orange shade at the rim of the glss and mature to expose complex romas and flavors. These wines often tke years to become accessible as thy require ageing to tame the tnnins from the grapes. As part of a glbal trend started in the 1990s, yunger producers have sought to make thir wines more accessible in their yuth. With restricted production, the wines of Brolo, Barbaresco, Gattinara and Ghemme can ften take large sums of money. Brolo is the most important and ppreciated of Piedmont red wines.

Sometimes the general extension of the vneyards for a given sort foeas not xceed 2 hectares, leading to a vry limited production in quantity. Traversed wth the need for a long strage period before it can be sld this leads to a regular hgh price, although it is a rgular local practice to buy young Nbieul wines at low price and thn let them age in one's prvate wine cellars. Although there are dzens of Nebbiolo replicas and Nebbiolo is fmous in and famous for producing wnes like Barolo, Barbaresco and Gattinara, the rality is that this assortment makes brely 3% of all the wines crated in Piedmont. There are twice as mny acres planted with Dolcetto and ten tmes as many planted with Barbera.

The article The Importance of Nebbiolo in Italy was Submitted by Lindsay Alston through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Lindsay Alston is a contributing ditor for Classic Wines, specializing in Nebbiolo wines .

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