Cinque Terre is a small

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white

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region in

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, North

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. The DOC was granted in 1973 and production is limited to the coastal areas of the

Cinque Terre The Cinque Terre (; ; meaning 'Five Lands') is a coastal area within Liguria, in the northwest of Italy. It lies in the west of La Spezia Province, and comprises five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggio ...

in the

Province of La Spezia The province of La Spezia (; Ligurian language, Ligurian: ''provinsa dea Spèza'') is a Provinces of Italy, province in the Liguria region of Italy. Its capital is the city of La Spezia. Overview It has an area of and, , a total population o ...

, and specifically to the territories of the

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Riomaggiore Riomaggiore (, locally ) is a village and ''comune'' in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the most southerly of the Cinque Terre villages. The village, dating from the early thirteenth c ...

(including

Manarola Manarola ( in the local dialect) is a small town, a frazione of the comune (municipality) of Riomaggiore, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, Northern Italy. It is the second-smallest of the famous Cinque Terre towns frequented by tourist ...

Vernazza Vernazza (, locally ; ) is a town and located in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northwestern Italy. It is one of the five towns that make up the Cinque Terre region. Vernazza is the fourth town heading north, has no car traffic, and remai ...

(which includes the village of

Corniglia Corniglia (; locally ) is a ''frazione'' ("hamlet") within the comune of Vernazza in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy, with a population of about 150 (in 2016). Unlike the other localities of the Cinque Terre, Corniglia is ...

, whose wine has been known since

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) and

Monterosso al Mare Monterosso al Mare () is a town and ''comune'' in the province of La Spezia, part of the region of Liguria, Northern Italy. It is one of the five villages in Cinque Terre. Overview Twinned to Saint-Genès-Champanelle, France, Monterosso al Mare ...

, together with two adjacent areas within the commune of

La Spezia La Spezia (, or ; ; , in the local ) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second-largest city in the Liguria ...

: Tramonti di Biassa and Tramonti di Campiglia. The wine is produced from a

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containing at least 40% of the Bosco

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, but may also contain up to 40% of Albarola and/or

Vermentino Vermentino is a light-skinned wine grape variety, primarily found in Italian wine. It is widely planted in both Sardinia and Liguria, to some extent in Corsica, in Piedmont under the name Favorita, and in increasing amounts in Languedoc-Roussillo ...

and up to 20% of other white-berried grapes approved and/or recommended for the Province of La Spezia. The wines tend to be dry, with straw yellow colour, and a delicate aroma.

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Typically, it is best drunk with the local cuisine, and especially with seafood — until the arrival of the railway in 1874, the five villages of the Cinque Terre were little fishing hamlets, accessible only by sea.

Sciacchetrà

Sciacchetrà DOC is also produced in the same Cinque Terre area and is a 'vino passito' or

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of the Cinque Terre DOC wine, and is typically drunk with cheese or desserts.

References

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Agriligurianet: Sito ufficiale della Regione Liguria per l'agricoltura. ''Disciplinare di produzione del vino ‘Cinque Terre’ e ‘Cinque Terre Schiacchetra’''
{{webarchive, url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722023254/http://www.agriligurianet.it/Agrinet/DTS_GENERALE/20040728/disc_vino_10.pdf , date=2011-07-22 . Alta Macadam, ''Northern Italy: From the Alps to Bologna'',

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, 10th edn. (London: A. & C. Black, 1997), p.264. Italian DOC

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Sciacchetrà

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