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Famous Orvieto wine, oh so delicious

Favorite thing: Wine making has a very old tradition in the region around Orvieto. Already the Etruscans made wine, because they realised that tuffa and volcanic soil are excellent nutrition medium and also the porous tuffa rock saves water or humidity. Wine lovers will know Orvieto even if they might not have been there yet: Orvieto (white) wine is famous throughout the world. Some of the exported one is or was quite cheap, a result of a brief period of money making rather than staying with quality, but most of the wine producers are back to high quality wines. I was lucky to taste some really excellent white wines at Locanda Rosati during our evening meals. Giampiero, the owner, brought us several bottles of white a friend produces. It tasted delicious and several of the guests brought cartons.
Check in the entoecas of the city, it is possible to sample Orvieto wine. The best option though is to stay at an agriturismo where you might be even able to watch wine making processes in addition to wine tasting.

Fondest memory: Orvieto wine