Boca (
Piedmontese
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: ''Bòca'',
Lombard: ''Boca'') is a ''
comune
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'' (municipality) in the
Province of Novara
Novara (It. ''Provincia di Novara'') is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Novara.
In 1992, the new Province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola was created through the fusion of three geographical areas which had prev ...
in the
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
region
Piedmont
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, located about northeast of
Turin
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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 i ...
.
Boca borders the following municipalities:
Cavallirio,
Cureggio,
Grignasco,
Maggiora,
Prato Sesia
Prato Sesia is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara.
Prato Sesia borders the following municipalities: Boca, Cavallirio, Grignasco ...
, and
Valduggia.
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
The following four classifications of wine constitute the Italian system of labelling and legally protecting Italian wine:
* ''Denominazione di origine'' (DO, rarely used; ; English: “designation of origin”),
* ''Indicazione geografica tipi ...
'' (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
Nebbiolo (, ; pms, nebieul ) is an Italian red wine grape variety predominantly associated with its native Piedmont region, where it makes the '' Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita'' (DOCG) wines of Barolo, Barbaresco, Roero ...
, 20-40%
Vespolina and up to 20% of
Uva Rara (known locally as ''Bonarda Novarese''). All grapes destined for DOC wine production need to be
harvested to a
yield no greater than 9
tonnes
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/ha. The wine is the required to be
aged in barrels for at least 2 years with another additional year of
aging in the bottle before it can be released to the public. The finished wine must attain a minimum
alcohol level
Alcohol by volume (abbreviated as ABV, abv, or alc/vol) is a standard measure of how much alcohol (ethanol) is contained in a given volume of an alcoholic beverage (expressed as a volume percent). It is defined as the number of millilitres (mL) o ...
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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