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Grignolino Wine Grape Variety - Cellar Notes (188 words) |
 | Grignolino is a red grape grown almost exclusively in the Piedmont region of northern Italy. |
| Grignolino is a slow maturing grape that is best suited for warmer areas that have long growing seasons. |
| Outside of Italy, the Grignolino grape variety is an oddity and is not growing in use. |
| the fine wines of the Langhe: grignolino doc (241 words) |
| Grignolino wine is one of the most characteristic wines in Piedmont, and its value is even more elevated by the limited quantity which is produced. |
| The area of Grignolino used to be more extended than it is nowadays, but the spreading throughout Europe of the terrible grapevine diseases led as a consequence to the reduction of its cultivation areas. |
| Grignolino wine has many lovers; some of them are famous, such as Giovanni Lanza, Prime Minister during the “National Unity”, who also produced this wine, and King Umberto I, who preferred it rather than other wines on his table. |
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