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Chinato

Chinato designates an Italian aromatised wine whose recipe incorporates cinchona, usually over wines with a marked regional identity.

Cinchona bark contributes an elegant bitterness balanced with sugar, spices and herbs. Barolo Chinato is its best-known example, though not every chinato starts from Barolo.

It shares a conceptual family with quinado and quinquina, but retains Italian terminology and tradition. Go deeper in quinados, quinquinas and chinatos.

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