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The 10 highest wine towns in Italy
Città del Vino comuni ranked by elevation. Mountain viticulture, by the numbers. 10 towns shown, highest first.
Table no. 36 · Ranked by m · 10 towns
Vines stop where the cold wins, and these towns farm the boundary. Every one holds the Città del Vino designation; every one sits higher than most of Italy's wine country thinks possible.
Ranked by elevation. Mountain wine is a small-batch argument between altitude and sugar, and the tasting rooms come with radiators.
- 1.San Giovanni in Fiore1,049 mCosenza · CalabriaThe capital of the Sila Grande at 1,049 meters, Italy's most populated commune above a thousand.
- 2.Mormanno840 mCosenza · Calabria
- 3.Acerenza833 mPotenza · Basilicata
- 4.Brentonico692 mTrento · Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolThe Monte Baldo plateau town between Lake Garda and the Vallagarina, with chestnut groves, war trenches and a botanical garden.
- 5.Aymavilles646 mAosta Valley · Aosta Valley
- 6.Mamoiada644 mNuoro · SardiniaThe Barbagia village where the Mamuthones come out on January 17, twelve men in black sheepskins carrying thirty kilos of cowbells.
- 7.Ripalimosani640 mCampobasso · Molise
- 8.Castiglione di Sicilia621 mCatania · Sicily
- 9.Montegiordano619 mCosenza · Calabria
- 10.Saracena606 mCosenza · Calabria
FOUR OF THE TOP TEN ARE IN CALABRIA
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