Passito
Strong, usually sweet wines made from dried grapes
Pastoso
Medium dry ...
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Passito (Italy)
The passito method describes the drying of grapes prior to fermentation. The dehydration results in an increased sugar concentration.
Passito (pah-see'-toe)
An Italian wine making technique. The grapes are dried on mats until they turn to raisins. The result is a much higher sugar ratio in the grapes.
PASSITO
An Italian wine-making process whereby harvested grapes are dried before being pressed to concentrate the sugars prior to fermentation.
PAUILLAC
Name of a village in the Haut-Medoc area of the world famous Bordeaux region in France.
Passito - (Pah-SEE-toe)
Italian wine-making process in which harvested grapes are placed in a dry room (traditionally on straw mats) to dry into raisins before being pressed.
passitoAn Italian term for a wine made from semi-dried grapes. pasteurisationThe process of sterilisation by heating, named after Louis Pasteur.
styles Frizzante and Spumante metodo classico; Rosato also in the specific style(s) Frizzante; Rosso and in the specific styles Frizzante and Novello); with specific grape variety: Aglianico (Rosso and in the specific styles Spumante and Passito); ...
Only wines exclusively produced with Sagrantino are recognized as DOCG, which can be produced as dry and sweet (passito).
The maximum yield of grapes into wine must not be more than 65% for the Montefalco Sagrantino 'Secco' and 45%, referring to weight of the fresh grapes, for the 'Passito' wine, the grapes of which are dried for not less than 2 months.
In dessert form it is either passito or fortified, but it also appears in sparkling wines Asti and Moscato d'Asti . One of the best is the Moscato di Trani, made on Adriatic in the town of the same name in Apulia.
A minor white-wine grape grown in the Piedmont region of Italy. Used to make a sweet, full-bodied white from the dried grapes, called Passito, and also a dry white in the conventional manner. Also used to make a fortified wine called Liquoroso.
Minor grape grown in the Piedmont region of Italy and used to make dry white wine. Better known for the full-bodied, sweet wine versions made with dried grapes, (i.e: Passito). Also a fortified version with 16% alcohol, (i.e: Liquoroso).
Erbalucedi Caluso DOC comprised of thirty five villages around the town of Caluso. Erbaluce produces predominantly dry white wines although both a sparkling Caluso Spumante and a rich pudding wine, Caluso Passito are also produced.
 See also: Wine, Grape, Sweet, Region, Dry
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