Italian Wine Law

An important discipline, directed to the protection and the valorization of the wine production is born with the Law n.116/63 and its regulations of execution n.930/63.
The intentions of the Legislator were those to value the higher quality wine production, as happened in nearby France. But in great part, they have made the D.O.C.(Controlled Denomination of Origin) classification somewhat obsolete, lowering its quality. Various wine producers have therefore preferred to maintain their own wines in the generic Table Wine classification, identifying themselves outside the D.O.C. classifications and creating their own identity.

With the classification instituted from Law 164/92 the Legislator allows one selection of each type to be deemed the better wine. Before D.O.C wines were classified as all the same, provided that they were limited to respect the minimal characteristics of production discipline. Now, there exist others and new distinctions, that are selective and high quality wines.
Therefore currently the wines are classified in:

• Table wines
• Wines with Typical Geographic Indication (I.G.T.)
• Quality wines produced in specified regions (V.Q.P.R.D.)

Those last wines assume one main selective classification in D.O.C. and D.O.C.G. (wines with particular attribute, already D.O.C. from at least five years in which every bottle is guaranteed to originate from the State with the appropriate mark).
Now it is possible to distinguish the Subzone, associate the denomination of origin, or the Town, the Fraction, the Small farm, the Podere, the Vine.
It is with these new wine classifications that we now can sample various wines in the tasting room.