Wine is an alcoholic beverage, obtained from fermentation (total or partial)
of the fruit of the vine, the grapes (whether pressed or not), or of the must.

General The wine can also be obtained from grapes belonging to crossings of
Vitis vinifera with other species of the genus Vitis (for example Vitis labrusca or
Vitis rupestris) and from grapes of different Vitis species (such as Vitis chunganensis).
In Italy (and throughout the European Union), to protect a higher quality product,
price and value, the fermentation product cannot be commercially called "wine"
of grapes other than Vitis vinifera. Hence the term, in the case of marketing
fermented different, must be omitted. Common system to overcome this prohibition is,
for example, simply mentioning the name of the grape variety used, of course
without mentioning the term "wine".
With this drink you can also give life to a distillate which, if aged for at least 12
months in wood, it takes the name of brandy. The quality and diversity of wines strictly depend on
from the grape variety, the climate, the soil, its exposure to solar radiation
and from the more or less careful cultivation of the vine itself.

Etymology Wine derives directly from the Latin vīnum, from a Mediterranean theme from which
it also derives Ancient Greek ϝοῖνος woînos, Classical οἶνος oînos, Hebrew יין yayin
and Armenian գինի gini. The Latin word has been lent to Umbrian, Oscan, Faliscan vinu,
Etruscan vin(um), to Leponzio Vinom; more recently, vīnum has been lent to
Celtic languages, to Germanic languages ​​and from these to Finnish viini. Even the Slavic terms
for wine they are likely to be Latin loanwords. The hypothesis that vīnum has
an Indo-European origin, common to the Hittite wiyan, it has little credit today. (source Wikipedia)


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