Region Traveling: Alto Adige
TRENTINO ALTO-ADIGE photo courtesy of 'Wine Maps' This week I would like to recognize a beautiful region with wines that are just as beautiful, Trentino-Alto Adige is located in the very northern part of Italy. I have tasted magnificent wines from this region of Italy that it would be a shame to not discuss and explore what Alto Adige has to offer. Trentino Alto-Adige is made up of two autonomous provinces, while Trentino is almost entirely Italian speaking, Alto-Adige has a dominant German-speaking population. Throughout the course of history, Trentino had been conquered by many different rulers, it was even apart of different regions than Italy. Trentino did not officially become apart of Italy until 1918. In the early 19th century, there were a few people of Trentino that were active in the resistance led by Tyrolean, Andreas Hofer, against the French invasion. Hofer was an innkeeper and drover, an Austrian native, who became the leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion agai
