Spumante

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Spumante is Italian sparkling wine . The two legally prescribed EC designations are "Italian sparkling wine" and "Italian quality sparkling wine". The designation "DOC" ( Denominazione di origine controllata ) indicates that it comes from a certain growing area.

Originally, in contrast to the frizzante, sparkling wine was produced using the classic bottle fermentation method. But now there are also bottle-fermented frizzante.

See also

• Viticulture in Italy

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Wiktionary: Spumante  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Difference between Spumante and Frizzante