Life Style / Wine Grapes / Pignolo: Variety used to produce DOC sturdy red wine, with some ageing ability, in the Friuli-Venezia and Lombardy regions of N.E. Italy. Has nearly a dozen synonym names including Ribolo that possibly is an alias name for the Ribolla (Nera) variety, Pignola Valtellinese, Pignola Nera and Pignola Spanna. Where grown in the Valtellina DOC of Lombardy, Italy it is used as a red blending wine, sometimes with Nebbiolo wine. In the Fruili-Venezia region it is best known for producing a ruby-cherry colored wine reported to have good sugars and acidity, wild fruit flavors (?) plus low tannins.
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