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Zagarolo DOC

One of the smallest DOCs in Italy, a white only zone at the eastern tip of the Roman hills that has declared only a few hundred hectoliters in good years and often nothing. The wine, when it exists, is the standard Roman Malvasia and Trebbiano white: pear, white flowers, bitter almond, low acid, drink young. It survives on paper largely because nobody has bothered to cancel it.

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Cantina Sociale di Zagarolo (historic cooperative)
Zagarolo Superiore
The town cooperative is the DOC's historical bottler; recent releases are sporadic to nonexistent, so verify locally before hunting.
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