Aleatico
[ah-leh-AH-tee-koh] An Italian red grape that some theorize is a variation of the muscat family because of its flowery Muscat characteristics. Its noncharacteristic deep color, however, seems to discount this theory.
Aleatico :
Italian grape variety which produces a red wine of the same name.
Alentejo : ...
ALEATICO
A wine grape used for sweet dessert wines because of its pungent, Muscat-like flavor.
ALIGOTE
Grape variety producing a white wine grown mainly in Bourgogne. The Bourgogne Aligoté is a pleasant wine designed to drink young.
ALEATICO: Minor red grape commonly grown in central and southern Italy. Related to the Muscat variety, with strong aroma of that grape, it is grown extensively in the Abbruzzo and Apulia regions.
Aleatico di Puglia (dolce naturale, liquoroso and riserva) produced throughout the region
Alezio produced in the province of Lecce
Brindisi (as Brindisi rosso and Brindisi rosato) produced in the province of Brindisi ...
Aleatico (red)
Italian red variety with Muscat-like fragrance grown in Italy's south, on Elba and Corsica, and the central Asian republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Alicante Bouschet (red) ...
ALEATICO: Minor red-wine grape commonly grown in central and southern Italy. There have been controversial results in the attempt to establish pedigree with DNA testing.
At those times the most cultivated white grapes - as well as considered to be the best - were Verdicchio, Trebbiano, Moscatello Bianco and Uva Bianca della Maddalena; among red grapes, the best ones were Balsamina, Vernaccia and Moscatello Aleatico.
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