Italian Wines of a Different Sort
Italy is known for more than a few fine wineries producing epic vintages. There is another vintage, however, that is good and deserves a mention of its own.
Everyone is aware of champagne – the bubbly that is characteristic of the Champagne region of France. However, many people mislabel all such wines as “champagne”, when that is not really the case. There are different types of bubbly wine, with different varieties coming from such diverse places as Italy, California and Spain. Italian wines of this type are especially unique – their character and flavor is distinctly different from champagne.
This Italian wine, known as Spumante, is produced in Italy since the Roman age even before France produced the French champagne. There are varieties within the range of Italian bubbly wines some is having a drier, crispy taste and others having sweet taste and not having the flavor of champagne. Most of these are produced in the north of Italy, such as Veneto, Piedmont, and Lombardy.
There is a big difference between champagne and Italian wines in the way these two are fermented. Champagne is fermented in the bottle, can generate bubbles. Spumante Italian wines on contrary are fermented in a different way known as the Charmat process. In this process, the wine is put to fermentation in a tank instead of in its bottle for the second phase of fermentation (the bubble-producing period).
The young age consumption effects better with the most common variety of Spumante wines, such as the brand Asti, in past known as a lower-graded sweet tasted bubbly wine, presently is considered as of better quality. It goes well with cheeses, like Gorgonzola. Another worth trying variety is the brand Franciacorta, only bubbly bottle fermented wine in Italy. Franciacorta is the most popular of Italian Spumante wines and forms smaller bubbles and of a milder taste. It suits better with the foods like champagne – fresh fruit and other mild flavors and it is indeed a great experience.
The taste of Italian white wine primarily depends on the different variety of grapes used and the storing time required for the optimum maturity in taste and flavor.
Nowadays sparkling wine is being considered the most cost affordable variety of Italian wine and readily available which reveals its technical feature that is light or little-sparkling. 
In comparison to other red wine produced countries of the world, the Italian red wines stand apart due to their unique taste, higher level of acidity, and exclusive aroma.