{"id":286636,"date":"2023-12-18T12:49:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2023\/12\/18\/vini-emilia-romagna-italia-ue-dop\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:11:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T14:11:34","slug":"emilia-romagna-wines-enter-eu-register-of-protected-designation-of-origin-pdos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2023\/12\/18\/emilia-romagna-wines-enter-eu-register-of-protected-designation-of-origin-pdos\/","title":{"rendered":"Emilia Romagna wines enter EU register of protected designation of origin (PDOs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Bologna, Modena and Ravenna. The European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/EN\/TXT\/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.C_.2023.305.01.0009.01.ENG&amp;toc=OJ%3AC%3A2023%3A305%3ATOC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">today (Dec. 18) added<\/a> the Italian wines of the Emilia-Romagna region at <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.ec.europa.eu\/farming\/geographical-indications-and-quality-schemes\/geographical-indications-and-quality-schemes-explained_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registers of the protected designation of origin\u00a0(PDO).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said in a statement that the wines of Emilia-Romagna are produced in four categories: <strong>wine, sparkling wine, quality sparkling wine and semi-sparkling wine<\/strong>. &#8220;The unique characteristics of these wines originate in the warm but breezy continental climate in combination with soils of alluvial origin with\u00a0high pebble and silt content. The day-to-night temperature variation in the summer,\u00a0which helps the grapes to reach optimum ripeness, preserving all of<br \/>\ntheir aromatic and acidic properties and thus ensuring a freshness in<br \/>\nthe resulting wines,&#8221; Brussels explains in its report.<\/p>\n<p>It also recognizes that the expertise of local winemakers plays an important role in branding. &#8220;This includes the choice of root-stock and training system, canopy management, water supply regulation and innovative sparkling wine production techniques.&#8221; Wines from Emilia-Romagna are based mainly on the <strong>Pignoletto grape variety with a small addition of other grape varieties.<\/strong> &#8220;Sparkling wines are moderately aromatic, fruity and have perceptible acidity, while still wines also have floral notes and appreciable minerality,&#8221; the note concludes. This new designation will be added to the list of <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/agriculture\/eambrosia\/geographical-indications-register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1,640 wine products<\/a> that are already protected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine, sparkling wine, quality sparkling wine and semi-sparkling wine. &#8220;The unique characteristics of these wines originate in the warm but breezy continental climate in combination with alluvial soils with high pebble and silt content,&#8221; according to Brussels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4544,"featured_media":258139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25709],"tags":[25815,26080,26081,26082],"class_list":["post-286636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agrifood-en","tag-designation-of-origin-en","tag-capand","tag-vini-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4544"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286636"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287540,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286636\/revisions\/287540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}