Verduzzo (or Verduzzo Friulano) is a white Italian wine grape grown predominantly in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of northeast Italy. It is also found in significant plantings in the Piave Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) of the Veneto region, though some of these plantings may be of the separate Verduzzo Trevigiano variety. Verduzzo Friulano is used in varietal and blended wines, many of which fall under DOC as well as vino da tavola designations, that range in style from dry to late harvest wines.[1] According to wine expert Oz Clarke, most of the sweeter examples of Verduzzo can be found in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia with the grape being used for progressively drier styles of the wine the further west into the Veneto.[2]
The grape is widely associated with the Denominazione di origine controllata e Garantita (DOCG) wine of Ramandolo which gained DOCG status in 2001.[3] It is also often seen in the DOC wines from the Colli Orientali del Friuli. Wine expert Karen MacNeil has stated that the Verduzzo-based Ramandolo is one of the "lightest-bodied, most exquisite dessert wines made anywhere".[4]
According to wine writers Joe Bastianich and David Lynch, Verduzzo has the potential to produce honeyed sweet wines with a citrus note similar to "an orange jelly candy" as well as somewhat tannic dry whites with "chalky" notes.[5]
^J. Robinson (ed) "The Oxford Companion to Wine" Third Edition pg 731 Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 0-19-860990-6
^O. Clarke Oz Clarke's Encyclopedia of Wine pg 378 Time Warner Books, London 2003 ISBN 0-316-72654-0
^Consorzio Tutela Ramandolo Nimis "History" Accessed: December 27th, 2012
^Karen MacNeil The Wine Bible Workman Publishing 2001, pgs 349–350 ISBN 1-56305-434-5
^J. Bastianich & D. Lynch Vino Italiano pg 38–40, 401 Crown Publishing 2005 ISBN 1-4000-9774-6
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