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Mysterious Origins of the Italian Wine Formerly Known as Tocai
Mysterious Origins of the Italian Wine Formerly Known as Tocai
Mysterious Origins of the Italian Wine Formerly Known as Tocai
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A monograph that digs into the history of Tocai Friulano, a popular Italian grape mostly grown in Friuli Venezia Giulia. Author Mike Madaio searches through northeast Italy, Hungary and France to try to determine the true origins of this important wine.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherLife at Table
Release dateMay 20, 2024
ISBN9798224340750
Mysterious Origins of the Italian Wine Formerly Known as Tocai

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    Mysterious Origins of the Italian Wine Formerly Known as Tocai - Mike Madaio

    Mike Madaio

    Mysterious Origins of the Italian Wine Formerly Known as Tocai

    First published by Life at Table 2023

    Copyright © 2023 by Mike Madaio

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    Mysterious Origins of the Italian Wine Formerly Known as Tocai

    Vineyards in Collio, FVG (Aurellio Candido/Flickr)

    The Friuli-Venezia-Giulia (FVG) grape Tocai Friulano is probably, inauspiciously, most known for its part in the multi-decade legal battle by Hungary to prevent the word Tocai from being used in Italy, because of its similarity to their own famous Tokaji wine. From 2008, when the Council for the European Union finally ruled in the Hungarians’ favor, Italian wine labels could no longer use the controversial term, and are now labeled just Friulano. Strangely, the grape is still officially called Tocai Friulano, at least according to Italy’s National

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