26.05.12
Verona, Italy (PRWEB) December 29, 2011
Italy is known for a minute but impressive variety of sparkling wines, which they have been making since Roman times, want before champagne was ever being produced. According to Wine Spectator: Led by Prosecco, Italian foamy consumption has skyrocketed especially in the U.S. in just a few years. The spumante vend is “booming" despite being hit the hardest by the recession in 2008. Russia also shows excess promise with its penchant for Italian sparkling wine, which constitute 60% of all its sparkling wine imports.
In 2010 alone, 375 million bottles of Italian Sparkling Wines were made, as a rule using one of two methods: the Metodo Classico (or Méthode Champenoise, with 23 million bottles in 2010) and the Charmat Method with 352 million bottles. Most of them give birth to from the Northern part of Italy encompassing the Regions of Trentino, Piemonte, Lombardia and Veneto. Amongst the wines selected by Wine Looker-on for OperaWine: Finest Italian Wines, 100 Great Producers, some of Italy’s finest examples of the choice and quality of its spumantes are represented. For Prosecco we have Santa Margherita and Carpenè Malvolti, For Metodo Classico Gancia and Ferrari, for all time for Franciacorta: Ca’ del Bosco and Bellavista.
Source: PR Web (press release)