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Italian wine A classical Italian vineyard scene, with vines growing together with olive trees. Vineyards around the town of Barolo. Italian wine is wine produced in Italy, a country which is home to some of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world. Etruscans and Greek settlers produced wine in the country long before the Romans started developing their own vineyards in the 2nd century BC. Roman grape-growing and winemaking was prolific and well-organized, pioneering large-scale production and storage techniques like barrel-making andbottling.[1] Two thousand years later, Italy is one of the worlds foremost producers, responsible for approximately one-fifth of world wine production in 2005.[2] In 2008, Italy bested Francefor the title of worlds biggest producer for the first time in a decade, at nearly six billion liters.[3] Wine is extremely popular in Italy. Italians lead the world in wine consumption by volume, 59 liters per capita. (Compare this to the United States, at 7.7 liters per capita.)[4] Grapes are grown in almost every region of the country. More than 1 million vineyards are under cultivation. Contents 1 History 2 Italian appellation system 3 Geographical characteristics 4 Italian wine regions 5 Key Italian wine varietals 5.1 Rosso (Red) 5.2 Bianco (White) 6 Super Tuscans 7 Wine guides 8 Vino cotto 9 Fermentation 10 Tasting Wine Beverages: 1 water 2 alcoholic beverages 3 non-alcoholic beverages 4 soft drinks 5 fruit juice 6 hot beverages 7 miscellaneous 8 wine 1，History Although wines had been elaborated from the wild Vitis vinifera grape for millennia, it wasnt until the Greek colonization that wine-making flourished. Viticulture was introduced into Sicily and southern Italy by the Mycenaean Greeks,[5] and was well established when the extensive Greek colonization transpired around 800 BC.[6][7] It was during the Roman defeat of the Carthaginians (acknowledged masters of wine-making) in the 2nd century BC that Italian wine production began to f