Boca (
Piedmontese: ''Bòca'',
Lombard: ''Boca'') is a ''
comune
The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...
'' (municipality) in the
Province of Novara in the
Italian region
Piedmont
it, Piemontese
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, located about northeast of
Turin
Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...
and about northwest of
Novara
Novara (, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous city in Piedmont after Turin. It is ...
.
Boca borders the following municipalities:
Cavallirio
Cavallirio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara.
Cavallirio borders the following municipalities: Boca, Cureggio, Fontaneto d'Ago ...
,
Cureggio
Cureggio is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region of Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara.
Cureggio borders the following municipalities: Boca, Borgomanero
Borgomanero ( ...
,
Grignasco
Grignasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara.
Grignasco borders the following municipalities: Boca, Borgosesia, Prato Sesia, Se ...
,
Maggiora
Maggiora is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara.
Maggiora borders the following municipalities: Boca, Borgomanero, Cureggio
Cureg ...
,
Prato Sesia, and
Valduggia
Valduggia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Vercelli in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about north of Vercelli.
Valduggia borders the following municipalities: Boca, Borgosesia, Cellio con ...
.
Monument
One of the most important churches in Boca is
Santuario del Santissimo Crocifisso, The biggest Church in Boca. There are some other churches in the village:
* Chiesa Parrocchiale
* Chiesa della Madonna delle Grazie
* Chiesa di san Rocco
* Chiesa della Madonna della Neve (fraz. Baraggia).
Next to the Sanctuary there is the
Natural Park of Mount Fenera
Boca DOC
The commune of Boca is home to the ''
Denominazione di origine controllata'' (DOC) wine which includes 15
hectare
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s (37 acres) producing a single red wine. The wine is a blend of 45-70%
Nebbiolo, 20-40%
Vespolina
Vespolina is a red Italian wine grape variety that is planted in Piedmont around Gattinara and Ghemme. Ampelographer believe that the grape is most likely indigenous to this area of Piedmont and recent DNA profiling identified a parent-offsprin ...
and up to 20% of
Uva Rara
Uva Rara is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown in the Piedmont and Lombardy wine regions of northern Italy. The grape is a permitted blending variety along with Nebbiolo in the ''Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita'' (DOCG ...
(known locally as ''Bonarda Novarese''). All grapes destined for DOC wine production need to be
harvested to a
yield no greater than 9
tonnes/ha. The wine is the required to be
aged in barrels
Oak is used in winemaking to vary the color, flavor, tannin profile and texture of wine. It can be introduced in the form of a barrel during the fermentation or aging periods, or as free-floating chips or staves added to wine fermented in a vess ...
for at least 2 years with another additional year of
aging in the bottle
The aging of wine is potentially able to improve the quality of wine. This distinguishes wine from most other consumable goods. While wine is perishable and capable of deteriorating, complex chemical reactions involving a wine's sugars, acids and ...
before it can be released to the public. The finished wine must attain a minimum
alcohol level of 12% in order to be
labelled with the Boca DOC designation.
[P. Saunders ''Wine Label Language'' pg 128 Firefly Books 2004 ]
References
External links
www.bocaitaly.comSite of Boca's Municipality
Cities and towns in Piedmont
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