The Langhe DOC is a relatively new legal entity and it covers a large area of wine growing and wine making territory, which is home tyo many famous Piedmont names, such as Barolo, Barbaresco, Asti etc. Of course this limits what the vignerons can grow and also excludes all the famous international varieties. Sometimes a grower would like to tinker with some aspect of a traditional recipe, or they would like to try their hand at growing and making wine out of a famous international variety; of course they could resort to Vino di Tavola (like the pioneering Super-Tuscan growers did) but the emergence of the Langhe DOC allows them to use this legal category to sell their wines.
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