Albana di Romagna

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DOCG area (also Romagna Albana) for white wine in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. The zone comprises 22 municipalities in the foothills of the Apennines in the provinces of Bologna (7), Ravenna (5) and Forlì-Cesena (10) in Romagna, the eastern part of the region. According to legend, there was already an Albana wine in the 5th century.

Name of the town of Bertinoro

Galla Placidia (daughter of a Roman emperor) was given Albana wine by the town of Bertinoro and is said to have exclaimed when tasting the wine: "non di così rozzo calice sei degno, o vino, ma di berti in oro" ("you do not deserve such a coarse goblet, O wine, but to be drunk in gold"). The medieval jurist Petrus de Crescentiis (1230-1320) also described an Albana wine as "very strong and with a noble flavour, well suited for long storage and yet quite subtle".

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