Italian Wine

Italy is one of the oldest wine regions in the world, the Etruscans and Greek settlers produced wine in the country long back before the Romans started developing their own vineyards in the second century BC. The Roman wine making was prolific and well-organized, pioneering large-scale production and storage techniques like barrel-making and bottling. Two thousand years later, Italy remains one of the world's foremost producers, responsible for approximately one-fifth of world wine production in 2005.

Wine is one of the popular drink in Italy. Most of the Italians drink it with every meal and in-between offer it to guests as soon as they arrive. Grapes are grown in almost every part of Italy with more than 1 million vineyards. under cultivation. Most of the winemaking in Italy is done in modern wineries, but villagers, making wine for their own use, sometimes tread the grapes with their bare feet until the juice is squeezed out. They believe this ancient method still makes to obtain the best wine.