23: How to order vino in Italian

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🗓️ 6 July 2017

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One of our favourite things to do in Italy is to sit out in the piazza and drink a nice glass of vino. Find out how to order wine like an Italian in this lesson.

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Today's words
Un prosecco = a prosecco
Due prosecchi = 2 proseccos
Una bottiglia di prosecco = a bottle of prosecco
Una = a (for feminine words)
Un = a (for masculine words)
il Chianti = a type of red wine from Tuscany
La Falanghina = a type of white wine which comes from the vesuvius region
La Barbera = a type of red wine from Piemonte
Un bicchiere di prosecco = a glass of prosecco
Un bicchiere di Chianti = a glass of Chianti
bicchiere = glass
di = of
calice = wine glass
spumante/frizzante/mosso = sparkling
mosso = moved
bollicine = little bubbles (sometimes used to talk about sparkling wine)
Vino fermo = still wine
Fermo = still
Vino bianco = white wine
Vino bianco fermo = still white wine
Secco
Vino bianco secco = dry white wine
Fruttato = fruity
Un vino bianco fruttato = fruity white wine
Dolce = sweet
Un vino bianco dolce = sweet white wine
Vino rosso = red wine
Corposo = full-bodied
Un vino rosso corposo = a full-bodied red wine
Un vino rosso non strutturato = a light red wine
Non strutturato = light (when talking about wine)

Wine list
Pinot grigio (dry white wine from the North East of Italy)
Soave (dry white wine from Veneto)
Fiano (dry white wine from Campania)
Donnafugata (fruity white wine from Sicily)
Gewürztraminer (fruity white wine from Trentino)
Malvasia (sweet white wine from Sicily)
Passito (sweet white wine from Sicily)
Zibibbo (sweet white wine from Sicily)
Amarone (Full-bodied red wine from Piemonte)
Barolo (Full-bodied red wine from Piemonte)
Aglianico (A light red wine from Campania)
Primitivo (A light red wine from Puglia)

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0:00.0	One thing I love about Italy is sitting at a little table in a restaurant or bar, looking out over the piazza and enjoying a nice glass of vino.
0:10.0	Ordering wine is a really important skill in Italy.
0:13.5	So let's find out how in episode 23 of Five Minute Italian.
0:31.6	Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minute Italian. Hi everyone and welcome to Five Minutes Italian.
0:34.6	I'm Katie.
0:35.6	And I'm Matteo.
0:36.6	Ciao. And in today's lesson, we're going to learn how to order a glass of
0:41.8	vino. Let's start nice and simple. Can you think of a famous Italian sparkling
0:48.1	wine which comes from the Veneto region in the northeast that's popular all over the world?
0:56.0	Brasico, of course. Of course.
0:58.0	And to order a glass of prosecco, you can simply say one prosceco.
1:04.0	One prosaecco. Or for two, you can use the plural.
1:09.0	Two prosaqi.
1:13.5	And what about if you want to order a bottle?
1:17.3	How do you say a bottle of prosaq?
1:21.3	One more time.
1:23.4	One more time.
1:36.8	And in Bottigia, we get the lii sound so if you want to know how to make the lili sound you can go back and listen to episode five but let's go on so we've got una bottlea di prosaecco, but un prosaqo.
1:45.1	That's interesting.
1:47.5	So we have un prosaqo with un,
1:52.3	a bottlea with una.
1:55.1	And this is again going back to our two groups,
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