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DOC-area for white wine in the border region of the two Italian regions Umbria and Latium. The zone encompasses about 2,500 hectares of vineyard area in the municipalities of Allerona, Alviano, Baschi, Castel Giorgio, Castel Viscardo, Fabro, Ficulle, Guardea, Montecchio, Montegabbione, Monteleone d’Orvieto, Orvieto, and Porano in the province of Terni (Umbria), as well as Bagnoregio, Castiglione in Teverina, Civitella d’Agliano, Graffignano, and Lubriano in the province of Viterbo (Latium). Frequent moisture in autumn causes fog and thus noble rot on the grape.

Viticulture has been practiced here since the Etruscan, and Orvieto wines had a legendary reputation in the Middle Ages. The painters Pinturicchio (1454-1513) and Luca Signorelli (1441-1523) demanded rations of wine as part of their fees for their work in the Sistine Chapel and the Cathedral of Orvieto. Pope Gregory XIV (1535-1591) also held it in high regard and stipulated in his will that his body should be washed with it before burial.

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