Grotte di Castro is part of the Aleatico Gradoli DOC Wine production area. This is a dessert red wine from Aleatico grapes cultivated in an area next to the Lake of Bolsena.
Aleatico grapes are among the 5 Italian aromatic grapes and wine has an intense and complex smell perfect to accompany desserts or cheese.
Viticulture in the Lake Bolsena area developed since the Etruscan period thanks to the microclimate of the lake.
The cultivation of the vine had a major expansion with the Romans and continued uninterrupted so that in 1627 Tassoni in De pensieri diversi' mentions it among the tasty wines.
The Aleatico of Gradoli was presented in 1861 at the Esposizione Italiana Agraria, Industriale e Artistica of Florence. In 1929 the Cantina Oleificio Sociale di Gradoli was foundedoil and the wine won over domestic and international markets.
In 1932 it won the Fiera del Levante in Bari, in 1934 the Show dell'Agricolture in Florence, the 1937 International Exposition in Paris, in 1938 at the Tripoli International Fair, in 1971 Wine Exhibition in Malta, in 1971 Siena and in 2004 in Rome.
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