Graffignano. Orvieto DOC wine

Graffignano is a town at the border between Lazio and Umbria and it is in the production area in one of the best Italian white wine.

The Orvieto DOC white wine can be dry, sweet, semi-sweet, late harvest and ‘noble rot’. Orvieto DOC comes from Grechetto and Trebbiano grapes cultivated in an area around the magnificent medieval town of Orvieto. 

The origin of Orvieto grape growing is lost in history, and the landscape is characterized by rows of vines.

The past is told by paintings on the Etruscan tombs of the territory of the fourth century BC.

The frescoes in the Golini tomb reproduce the preparatory stages of the Etruscan banquet with the slaughtering of meat, the placing of drinks and foods and among the fruit we find a bunch of grapes.

 


Written by:
Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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