Denominazione di origine controllata

... which stands for Denomination of Origin Controlled and Guaranteed.

Denominazione di origine controllata.

I get to know what I'm doing in Italian.

You don't need to do this denomination.

If you want, you can learn all about volcanology in that, 'cause I definitely do a dive on that.

But Mount Etna is such an amazing place, and the Etna DOC, so Denominazione di Origine Controllata, is tied to the biggest active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna.

And lest you think it's not active, you can look on the news [laughs] and it's constantly spewing something.

And the times I've been there, she is smoking away from one of the craters or vents.

There's lots of fertile soil, lots of places that you can grow grapes in bulk, and they were doing just that and making money by pushing that out to markets all over Europe and all over mainland Italy.

Unfortunately, Etna dwindled during most of the 20th century.

Although Etna was the first DOC on Sicily, so Denominazione di Origine Controllata, September 25th, 1968, it wasn't very well-respected.

So it got the DOC because it's obviously a place where wine has been made for a really long time.

And one of the most exciting wines made there is Cerasuolo d'Abruzzo.

It is a DOC, uh, Denominazione di Origine Controllata classification of rose, made exclusively in the region of Abruzzo.

This wine is a very dark claret-colored rose, and it has a lot of mineral and savory characteristic to it.

It drinks like a r- it looks like a red, drinks like a, a rose.

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welcome back everyone to the stop italian sounding show uncovering authentic italian food so last week we talked about la vendemmia you know the italian grape harvest and at the end of that episode i left you with a question the next time you pick up a bottle of italian wine take a look at the label you might see a few letters doc docg or even igt but what do those letters actually mean and perhaps more importantly If you see DOCG on one of the bottles and DOC on another, does that automatically mean that the DOCG wine is better or the DOC wine is better than the DOCG? Let's break it down.

First, it's important to understand why these classifications even exist in the first place.

Just like the PDO and the PGI designations that we recently talked about with Italian food products, Italian wine classifications are largely about protecting origin.

They're designed to establish rules around where a wine comes from and how it could be produced under a particular protected name.

So let's first start with DOC or DOC.

It stands for denominazione di origine controllata, which roughly translates to controlled designation of origin.

And if a wine carries a DOC designation, it has to come from a defined geographical area and follow a specific set of production rules.