Boca (

Piedmontese Piedmontese ( ; autonym: or ; ) is a language spoken by some 2,000,000 people mostly in Piedmont, a region of Northwest Italy. Although considered by most linguists a separate language, in Italy it is often mistakenly regarded as an Italian ...

: ''Bòca'', Lombard: ''Boca'') is a ''

comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...

'' (municipality) in the

Province of Novara The province of Novara () is a Provinces of Italy, 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 whic ...

in the

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region

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, located about northeast of

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) 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 from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

and about northwest of

Novara Novara (; Novarese Lombard, Novarese: ) is the capital city of the province of Novara in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region in northwest Italy, to the west of Milan. With 101,916 inhabitants (on 1 January 2021), it is the second most populous ...

. 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, Cavallirio, ...

Grignasco Grignasco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Novara in the Italy, Italian region Piedmont, located about northeast of Turin and about northwest of Novara. Grignasco borders the following municipalities: Boca (NO), Boca, Borgosesia ...

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 Borgomanero (; ...

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 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 The following four classification of wine, classifications of wine constitute the Italy, Italian system of labelling and legally protecting Italian wine: * ''Denominazione di origine'' (DO, rarely used; ; 'designation of origin'); * ''Indicazione ...

'' (DOC) wine which includes 15

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s (37 acres) producing a single red wine. The wine is a blend of 45-70%

Nebbiolo Nebbiolo (, ; ) 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, Gattinara, Ghemme, a ...

, 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-offspring ...

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

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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

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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.com

Site of Boca's Municipality
Cities and towns in Piedmont {{Novara-geo-stub