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Red Wine
Though some local red
wine is made, most of
the bottled red wine in
Rome comes from other
parts of Italy. Regions
like Tuscany, and
Piedmont produce Montepulciano
very good everyday d’Abruzzo, a rich
drinking as well as and juicy red wine, is Chianti Classico
Riserva is older
top-class wines like always a good buy. It is and stronger
Barolo. Price should produced in the Abruzzi than a normal
reflect quality – region east of Rome. Chianti Classico.
try Dolcetto, Rosso
di Montalcino, or Torre Ercolana is
Montepulciano for produced in small
good-value reds. quantities, and is
generally regarded as
Tuscan table one of Lazio’s best red
wine Barolo wines. It is made from
Cesanese, and Cabernet
grapes and requires at
Reading the Label least five years’ aging.
Italy has a two-tier system for labeling Apéritifs and Other Drinks
quality wine. DOC (denominazione di
origine controllata) means you Bitter, herb-flavored drinks like Martini,
can be sure the wine is from the Campari, or Aperol are the most
region declared on the label and popular apéritifs. (Ask for an analcolico
is made from if you prefer a non-alcoholic one.)
designated grape Italians drink their apéritifs straight or
varieties. A higher with ice and soda. Strong after-dinner
classification – DOCG drinks, known as digestivi or amari,
(denominazione di are worth trying, as is aniseed
origine controllata e sambuca, served with coffee beans.
garantita) – is given to Italian brandy, and grappa can be
top wines such as the very fiery, and Italian beer is made
reds Barolo, Barbaresco, in lager style.
Chianti Classico, and
Brunello di Montalcino. Chianti Classico
Campari
Drinking Water
Unlike many Mediterranean Soft Drinks
cities, Rome benefits from Italian fruit juices are
a constant supply of fresh good, and most bars
drinking water, piped squeeze fresh orange
down from the hills juice (spremuta di
through a system of arancia) on the spot.
pipes, and aqueducts Iced coffee, and fruit-
that has changed
little from ancient flavored tea, such as
Roman times. peach, are popular. Refrigerated storage for
Only if there is a wine and beer
sign saying acqua
non potabile is the
water not safe One of Rome’s many fresh water
to drink. drinking fountains

Coffee is almost more important
to Roman life than wine. Choose
espresso for strong black coffee
at any time of day; milky
cappuccino for breakfast or
mid-afternoon; and caffè latte
for extra milk. Espresso Cappuccino Caffè latte

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