Gotta Love This: No one is actually SURE how many DOCGs there are. How Italian is that?

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The Best Italian DOCG list? <i> (now up to 47)</i> - On the Wine Trail in Italy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

From Alfonso Cevola’s always informative and well written blog.

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Thanks for linking his blog, met hem a few years ago. Good speaker as well.
So in your esteemed opinion what value does DOCG have now, if any?

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ZERO. As the recent Brunello scandals demonstrated so well, the rep of the producer is the ONLY thing that matters.

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Just like over here in Massachusetts, it probably provides hundreds of Italians good lifetime jobs at good wages.

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Yeah I agree, the problerm is I still have to teach this stuff as if it is important.

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Roberto (or anyone else, for that matter), putting aside for a moment the overall value or lack thereof of DOCG designation, what is it supposed to convey? I’m looking at the list and it seems to be based on production zones, i.e., in Piemonte, I’m guessing that Ovada (which I’ve never heard of before) is a different region/town/zone than Dogliani when it comes to Dolcetto, right?

And I don’t see anything listed for Alto Adige - does that mean there are no DOCGs there?

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Yes, Ovada is a place and it is VERY different from Dogliani. And, no, there are no DOCGs in Alto Adige and I can’t think of one in Trentino either.

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More good stuff, this time from DoBianchi:

The Italian DOC/G system does (and doesn’t) matter | Do Bianchi" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;