FOOD WINE & CHEESE
SPOLETO
PIATTI TIPICI
(Regional Specialties)
STRINGOZZI – Thin homemade noodles, often served with mushrooms and black truffles.
SALAME DI CINGHIALE – Wild boar salame.
FAGIANO – Pheasant.
PORCHETTA – Suckling pig stuffed with garlic, pepper and herbs, and spit-roasted.
SCOTTADITO – Baby lamb chops grilled over a wood fire, to be picked up and eaten with fingers (burning).
CHEESES –
Pecorino – Sheep’s milk cheese, dolce or stagionato (“sweet” or seasoned).
I VINI DI SPOLETO
(The Wines o f Spoleto)
DOC wines
Colli Perugini DOC – Red and rosato wines produced along the Tiber valley from Sangiovese and Procanico grapes.
Montefalco DOC – Robust red wines.
Torgiano DOCG – Umbria’s greatest red and white wines (from the Lungarotti estate. Min. alcohol content 11.5 degrees.
