Novara (It. ''Provincia di Novara'') is a

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in the

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region of

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. Its capital is the city of Novara. In 1992, the new

Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Verbano-Cusio-Ossola (Italian: ''Provincia del Verbano Cusio Ossola'' ) is the northernmost province in the Italian region of Piedmont. It was created in 1992 through the fusion of three geographical areas which had previously been part of the ...

was created through the fusion of three geographical areas which had previously been part of the Province of Novara. It has an area of and a total population of 373,081 (2012). It consists of 88 ''comuni'' (municipalities).

Colline Novaresi DOC

The province of Novara is home to the ''

Denominazione di origine controllata The following four classifications of wine constitute the Italian system of labelling and legally protecting Italian wine: * ''Denominazione di origine'' (DO, rarely used; ; English: “designation of origin”), * ''Indicazione geografica tipi ...

'' (DOC) wine of Colline Novaresi which was created in 1994 for the red and white

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s of the area. All grapes destined for DOC wine production need to be harvested to a yield no greater than 11

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/ha. The red wine is a blend of at least 30%

Nebbiolo Nebbiolo (, ; pms, nebieul ) is an Italian red wine grape variety predominantly associated with its native Piedmont region, where it makes the '' Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita'' (DOCG) wines of Barolo, Barbaresco, Roero ...

(known under the local name of ''Spanna''), up to 40% Uva Rara and no more than 30% collectively of Croatina and Vespolina.

Varietal A varietal wine is a wine made primarily from a single named grape variety, and which typically displays the name of that variety on the wine label.The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2000.winepros.com.au. ...

styles of each of the red grape varieties can be made provided that the grape makes up at least 85% of the wine. The white wine is made 100% from the

Erbaluce Erbaluce or Erbaluce bianca is a white Italian wine grape grown primarily in the Piedmont region around Caluso, in Canavese. In addition to dry table wines, it is used to make sweet wines with deep golden coloring, such as '' passito''. The gra ...

grape. The finished wine must attain a minimum

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of 11% in order to be labelled with the Colline Novaresi DOC designation.P. Saunders ''Wine Label Language'' pg 152 Firefly Books 2004

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Novara Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It i ...

Wine regions of Italy