The Green Wine of Italy

Tocai is an aromatic dry white wine that is madeItalian wine maker to exclusively own this name
from the grapes of the same name. It is grown inand lost. There is also a Japanese saki type wine
the Fuilia area of Italy and it is named after smallknown as Tokei. Tocai is quite different and is
eccentric glasses it is served in Italian taverns.strictly grown in Italy.
The glasses are small and look like juice glasses.This fussy and eclectic grapevine only grows in
The grape is also sometimes known as Sauvignoncertain types of cool climates. It is rarefied
Vert which translates to mean “greenbecause it is vulnerable to disease, much like Pinot
wine.” It is also grown in Chile and France.Noir, and it often will rot if not grown near Fruilia.
The name is pronounced Toe-Koi.This is one of these wines that suffer if the crop
Tocai is not to be mistaken for a Hungarian wineis too big so most growers only keep a couple of
called Tokay. These two wines are very differentthe vines on their vineyards. The harvest for
and in fact the Hungarian wine maker sued theTocai grapes is small each year.