Riviera di Ponente

or Riviera Ligure di Ponente

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Wine

By Jancis Robinson

Published 2006

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Riviera di Ponente or Riviera Ligure di Ponente, extensive, overarching Ligurian doc along the north-western coast of Italy producing wines made of vermentino (called Pigato here) and alicante (probably grenache), and rossese di dolceaqua. For more details, see liguria.