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  • noun a dry white Italian wine made from Verdicchio grapes
  • noun a variety of white wine grape grown in Italy

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Examples

  • (The Verdicchio was a fragrant, peachy smelling white.

    Express Milwaukee 2009

  • (The Verdicchio was a fragrant, peachy smelling white.

    Express Milwaukee 2009

  • There are plenty of Italian white wines with a bitter and often slightly nutty or spicy note as well, including Falanghina and Greco di Tufo, both grapes grown in Campania; Verdicchio, from the Marche region; and Vermentino, a sprightly white grown all over the coastal regions of Italy.

    The World's Best Food Wines Lettie Teague 2011

  • Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal 2009 Azienda Agricola Bucci Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico Superiore, $20 The Bucci name is highly regarded in the Marche, and for good reason when they turn out as lovely a wine as this Verdicchio from the vaunted Castelli di Jesi region.

    The World's Best Food Wines Lettie Teague 2011

  • The Verdicchio was either oxidized and/or over the hill.

    Sasha Smith 2009

  • The Verdicchio was either oxidized and/or over the hill.

    LENNDEVOURS: 2008

  • Wines like Sauvignon Blanc (from all over the world) and Italian whites like Vermentino, Verdicchio and Arneis fall into this category, as well as Alabarinos from Spain and Chablis from France.

    Finding the Words for Wine 2010

  • The Verdicchio was either oxidized and/or over the hill.

    Diploma Dispatches: Central Italy 2008

  • I find that most Italian whites are dry in contrast to sweet but differ in body, e.g., Soave has more body than Verdicchio, etc.

    Pinot Bianco from the Alto Adige 2009

  • Your TNs of the PB sound similar to other light white wines from Italy, e.g., Pinot Grigio, Verdicchio, etc.

    Pinot Bianco from the Alto Adige 2009

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