San Colombano

San Colombano is the Italian form of Saint Columbanus.

It may also refer to

Italian places and ecclesisatical institutes

Wine grapes

Verdea (grape)

Verdea is a white Italian wine grape variety that originated in Tuscany but is today mainly grown in the Lombardy wine region of northern Italy. The grape is sometimes confused with the white Verdeca grape of the Apulia region and the French wine grape Verdesse from Savoy due to similarities in their names and synonyms. Verdea can be used to make a wide variety of wines, ranging from the late harvested Vin Santo to dry sparkling wines.

History and relationship to other grapes

The earliest mentioning of Verdea was by Pietro de' Crescenzi in his 1303 account of grape varieties growing in Tuscany. The grape was later described by Giovan Vettorio Soderini in his posthumously published work Trattato della coltivazione delle viti, e del frutto che se ne puô cavare (1600) as one of the Tuscan grape varieties that was much admired in the region.

In 2007, DNA analysis suggested that the red wine grape Sangiovese Forte may, in fact, be a color mutation of Verdea. This contradicted earlier DNA profiling from 2005 that concluded that Sangiovese Forte was a clone of the notable Tuscan wine grape Sangiovese.

San Colombano al Lambro

San Colombano al Lambro is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Milan in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Milan.

Geography

It is an exclave of the province, completely surrounded by territory of the Province of Lodi and the Province of Pavia. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 7,509 and an area of 16.39 square kilometres (6.33 sq mi).

San Colombano al Lambro borders the following municipalities: Borghetto Lodigiano, Graffignana, Livraga, Miradolo Terme, Orio Litta, and Chignolo Po, none of which are in its own Province of Milan.

San Colombano al Lambro is an exclave of the Province of Milan at the junction between the Pavia and Lodi provinces. The exclave arose when the Province of Lodi was carved out of the Province of Milan, but a referendum in San Colombano indicated the locals' wish to stay in Milan. As a result, the comune is the only wine–producing area in the mostly urbanized province of Milan.

San Colombano DOC