Cinque
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Cinque Terre Wine
The fame of the Cinque Terre is due also to its products, the dry white wine, simply called 'Cinque Terre' and the 'Sciacchetr�', a prized dessert wine made from prime grapes dried to the point of holding only a few drops of sweet juice.
A colorful addition to the Cinque Terre products is 'limoncino'; a dessert wine made from steeping lemon peels in pure alcohol and then adding sugar and water to make a fragrant and fresh liquor.
The lemons, another famous product of the Cinque Terre are prominently on display in the many 'limoneti' (lemon groves) and at the annual Lemon Festival held each year in Monterosso during the season of Pentecost.
Manarola vines
Photo ©Leslie Looney
The
Sentieri dell'Uva (Grape Routes) are still as they once were,
with fig trees planted in strategic positions to give shade during breaks
from work, agaves planted to mark boundaries, to line the footpaths along
steep, stony steps and to indicate the rail terminals of the recently
installed monorails which are the only vertical structures emerging from
this seemingly completely, horizontal landscape. Many dry stone walls
support this terraced landscape.
The large wicker baskets of grapes (corbe) are arranged along the "pose" (little walls, as wide as tables, built solely for this purpose). These include Albarola (Trebbiana), Biancorotto, Bruciapagliaio, Piccabon (Pizzamosca). To make white table wines the following varieties are used: Fiore di Bosco, Rappolungo, Fogiaccia, Ruspara, and Sesagra. Baskets full of Magnagra (Albarola), from which the famous Black Sciacchetr� is made, are handled with extreme care and set aside.
Vernazza
vines
Photo © Leslie Looney
The Cinque Terre grape tracks reach down to the sea. In the past, people used to anchor small fishing boats called "gozzi" immediately below the terraced vineyards. Baskets laden with grapes were then lowered from above into these small boats which then sailed round to the otherwise inaccessible village.
Nowadays this method is nothing but a distant memory, but by visiting the Cinque Terre you are still able to sample some of the most prized wines of the world that have been created by centuries of backbreaking experience.
Vine cellars
Cantina Sociale Cinque Terre,
with on-line purchase
Az. Agricola Luciano Capellini di L.
Capellini Volastra, Cinque Terre
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Text based on work by Todd VerBeek, Krigh Bachmann, Ricardo, Mario, Mark Jaroski, Evan Prodromou, David and Daniel Cowan, Wikitravel user(s) Episteme, Tkocis, Luvdapug, Pz-engl, Huttite, Hypatia and Caffeine and Anonymous user(s) of Wikitravel.
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© 1997-2010 Enrico Massetti
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