SPANNA:
Alternate local name for the Nebbiolo grape grown in the Piedmont district of Vercelli in Italy.
SPATBURGUNDER:
(see Blauburgunder above).
Spanna (spah'-nah)
The local name for the Nebbiolo grape in the Piedmont region of Italy. Some wines from the region are also labeled and sold under this name.
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SPANNA
Local name for the Nebbiolo grape and the red wine produced from it in the northern Piedmont region of Italy.
[Spanna]
The aristocrat of Northern Italy, making red wines that are said to evoke tar and roses. Exactly what sort of roses is hard to tell, but the sense of dark hearted intensity and gentle perfume is a good one. Can be glorious.
Spanna - (Spahn-na)
Another name for bargain hunters: Local name for a dry Piemontese red made from Nebbiolo, similar to but generally much less expensive than the neighboring Gattinara.
Spanna - in Gattinara, a region in northern Piedmont.
Picutener - in many areas of Piedmont, but most often in the Carema and Donnaz DOCs.
Chiavennasca - in Valtellina, in the far northern part of Italy
Volumes ...
NEBBIOLO: (aka Spanna locally and as Chiavennasca grape in Lombardy). Grape responsible for the long-lived, fine red wines of the Piedmont region of Italy.
In these regions the grape is known as Spanna and tends to produce lighter more earthier wines.
None in Australia. In Italy Nebbiolo is also known as Spanna, Spana, Picotenet, Pugnet (in Aosta) and Chiavennasca (in Lombardy). There are also several sub-varieties.
History ...
"bloom" that gives them a "foggy" or "frosted" look, so the name could come from from "nebbia", Italian for "fog". It is an alternative possibility that the name simply comes from "nobile", Italian for "noble". Nebbiolo also goes by the names Spanna, ...
 See also: Nebbiolo, Region, Wine, Grape, Red
  
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