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The rich soil of the Euganean Hills
produces goods of the highest quality
and amongst these the grapes, from which
the wine is obtained. For centuries
people from this area have produced
wines so good that they thought to
protect the wines characteristics giving
13 of them the DOC mark.
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The
protection and strict control of the
quality is entrusted to the
"Consorzio di Tutela" of the Euganei
Hills, the symbol on every trading stamp
on the bottles of DOC wines
represents the "Gattamelata", the
capitan of fortune that Donatello
immortalised in the beautiful bronze
monument in the Piazza del Santo in
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The 13 DOC wines of the Euganean Hills
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EUGANEAN HILLS - WHITE WINE
This wine is the result of a wise blend of
Garganega, Serprina and Tocai grapes in almost
equal percentages, with small quantities of
Pinot bianco, Italian Reisling and Pinella. It
is straw yellow in colour:its aroma is pleasing
and delicate, reminding if carefully noted, of
half open Jasmine, especially when the wine is
not over a year old. It has unmistakable
harmonious characteristics. Dry or sweet taste,
pleasant to the palate, soft, fall, fine,
delicate. Excellent as a drink in any hour of
the day, at a temperature of 7-8 °C., it blends
perfectly with Italian hors d'oevres, with soups,
fish and fresh cheese. For the best results the
temperature of the wine must be 10-12 °C. when
taken with meals. It has a minimum gradation of
10,5 grades.
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EUGANEAN HILLS - CABERNET
The vines from which this wine comes are located
in the south-west vine growing region of France.
Cabernet has been imported into Italy since
1920, the result of the initiative of the count
of Sambuy. It has a rich ruby colour with a
bouquet reminiscent of the countryside of
wistaria and sweet violets. It has a dry, warm,
smooth full bodied flavour, not very acidic,
sufficiently tannic.
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EUGANEAN HILLS - MERLOT
The vine of French origin. Imported from the
Gironde region. The scholar Petit-Lafitte
attributes the name to the deep colour of the
grapes which is reminiscent of the colour of
blackbird feathers, or even to the fact that the
blackbird (merle) has a particular preference
for this grape.
The vine is of a rather rich rudy red, or slight
garnet colour if aged. The flavour is rather dry
or sweetish. It has a pleasant characterist
bouquet reminiscent of blueberrie or raspberries.
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EUGANEAN HILLS - MUSCAT WINE
It has in itself the idyllic mysticism of the
Euganean Hills and like these does not cloak
itself in frivolities but dresses only in
natural values, offering sweet peace and
sparkling wellbeing. It is a sparking wine with
an unmistakable aroma, delicate and sweet, that
is drunk at 6-8 °C, on all occasions and any
time, preferably accompanying dry desserts or
biscuits. It is the wine of sincere moments, of
true values, of friendship.
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EUGANEAN HILLS - PINOT BIANCO
It is also, incorrectly, called Borgogna Bianco.
It comes from a vine of great quality, its ideal
habitat being that of the hillside. It is of a
yellowish white colour with a greenish hue: it
has a fine delicate woodland bouquet. With a
slight bitter almond aftertaste. The flavour is
smooth, rounded and agreeably dry.
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EUGANEAN HILLS - RED WINE
This wine is also born of a mixture of Merlot,
Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Barbera and
Raboso Veronese grapes. In this blend of grapes
that crushed, separated, pressed, fermented,
give life to a wine, excelling proportionally
per cent (2/3) the cultivated Merlot. The
Euganean Hills red wine is ruby in color when
young; slowly the ruby acquires grained
reflexion until reaching a brick colour.
Pleasant wine odour, with typical aroma,
distinctive, persistent, generous taste, warm,
rotund, pleasing to the palate. It is a "wise"
wine which merits an important place in private
wine-cellars and haute cuisine restaurants. A
great wine while young with thich soups, with
boiled and stewed meats, with roasted white meat
and poultry; when aged delights fellow guests
with game and red meat. It has a minimum
comprehensive gradation of 11 grades.
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EUGANEAN HILLS - TAI
It seems almost certain that the wine was
transported from Italy to Hungary in the 11th
century and not the other way round as is
generally believed. The wine is of a light
yellow colour and has a delicate bouquet of
peach tree foliage and wild flowers: it has a
dry or sweetish mellow, well rounded and smooth
flavour with a slightly bitter aftertaste.
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