Abboccato - Lightly sweet.
Alcool - Alcohol, usually stated by % of volume.
Amabile - Semisweet.
Annata - Vintage.
Azienda agricola or agraria or vitivinicola - Farm or estate.
Bianco - White.
Botte - Cask or barrel.
Bottiglia - Bottle.
Brut - Dry- in sparkling wine.
Cantina - Cellar or winery.
Cantina vinicola or azienda vinicola - Winery or wine merchant.
Cascina - Farmhouse, often used for estate
Chiaretto - Deep rose.
Classico - The historic centre of a DOC zone.
Consorzio - Consortium of producers.
Dolce – Sweet.
Enoteca - Wine library, public or commercial.
Etichetta - Label.
Fattoria - Farm or estate.
Fermentazione naturale - Natural CO2 in bubbly wine.
Frizzante or frizzantino - Fizzy or faintly fizzy.
Imbottigliata – Bottled (all'origine implies at the source).
Indicazione Geografica Tipica (IGT) - Recent category to officially classify
wines, usually of whole provinces or large areas.
Invecchiato - Aged.
Liquoroso - Strong wine, often fortified with distilled alcohol, though the
strength may be natural.
Maso - A holding, often referring to a vineyard or estate.
Masseria - Farm or estate.
Metodo Charmat - Sparkling wine by sealed tank method.
Metodo classico or tradizionale - Terms for sparkling wine made by bottle
fermentation method.
Passito - Strong, usually sweet wines made from partially dried grapes.
Podere - Small farm or estate.
Produttore - Producer.
Recioto - Wine made from partially dried grapes, often sweet and strong.
Riserva - Reserve, for DOC and DOCG wine aged for a specified time.
Rosato - Rose'.
Rosso - Red.
Secco - Dry.
Semisecco - Medium sweet, usually in sparkling wine.
Spumante - Sparkling wine, dry or sweet.
Stravecchio - Very old, applies to the longest aged Marsala and to some spirits.
Superiore - In DOC wines denotes higher level of alcohol or ageing or special
geographical origin.
Tenuta - Farm or estate.
Uva - Grape
Vecchio - Old, to describe certain aged DOC wines.
Vendemmia - Harvest or vintage.
Vigna or vigneto - Vineyard.
Vignaiolo/ Viticoltore - Grape grower.
Vino da tavola - Table wine, applies loosely to most non-DOCs.
Vino novello - New wine, usually red, that must be bottled within the year
of harvest.
Vitigno - Vine or grape variety.
Vivace – Lively, as in lightly bubbly wines.
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