{{short description|Wine}} {{Infobox wine region | name = Ramandolo | image = DOC_Colli_Orientali_del_Friuli.png | image_upright = | image_alt = | caption = DOC Colli Orientali del Friuli including DOCG Ramandolo and DOCG Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit Cialla | official name = | other name = | type = DOCG | year = 2001 | wine years = | country = Italy | part of = Friuli Colli Orientali | similar = | sub regions = | season = | climate region = | heat units = | precipitation = | soil = | total size = | planted = 39 ha in 2015 | vineyards = | grapes = | varietals = Verduzzo | wineries = | wine produced = 920 hl / 10,200 cases in 2016<ref>{{cite web |url=https://italianwinecentral.com/denomination/ramandolo-docg/ |title=Ramandolo DOCG |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2014-03-07 |website=Italian Wine Central |publisher=Vindeavour |access-date=2019-06-08}}</ref> | designation = | comments = Sweet wines only }}
'''Ramandolo''' is a sweet white Italian wine from the village of the same name which is situated in the hills near Nimis in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia wine region of northeast Italy. It is made from a local variety of the Verduzzo grape. Since 2001, Ramandolo has been produced as a DOCG wine. Prior to this it was a subzone of the Colli Orientali del Friuli DOC.<ref name="Vino Italiano">{{cite book| last1 = Bastianich| first1 = Joseph| last2 = Lynch| first2 = David| title = Vino italiano: the regional wines of Italy| year = 2005| publisher = Random House of Canada| isbn = 1400097746| pages = 38–40 }}</ref>
== DOCG requirements == Verduzzo grapes destined for DOCG wine production are limited to a harvest yield no greater than 10 tonnes/ha with the grapes allowed to hang on the vine late in the season and may even receive extra drying after picking. This allows for a greater concentration of sugar which leaves a wine with noticeable residual sweetness even with the high minimum alcohol level of 14% required.<ref name="Saunders">{{cite book| author = Peter Lionel Saunders| title = Wine label language| year = 2004| publisher = Firefly Books Ltd| isbn = 978-1-55297-720-0| page = 193 }}</ref>
== Wine styles == Wine expert Peter Saunders describes well made examples of Ramandolo from favorable vintages as fragrant, full-bodied, slightly tannic and not too sweet.<ref name="Saunders"/> Karen MacNeil describes Ramandolo as having a copper sheen to its deep yellow color with herbal notes.<ref name="MacNeil">{{cite book| last = MacNeil| first = Karen| title = The Wine Bible| year = 2001| publisher = Workman Publishing Company| isbn = 978-1-56305-434-1| pages = [https://archive.org/details/winebible00kare/page/349 349-350]| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/winebible00kare/page/349}}</ref>
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