Grape Varieties / Italy
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Italian Grape Varieties
Find the grapes behind familiar Italian wine names, with regional groups to make the next connection easier.
Choose a regional starting point. These groupings are connections, not limits on where a grape can grow. Profiles explain names and link the ingredient to its finished wines.
Veneto
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Corvina
A Veronese grape that connects fresh Valpolicella with the dried-grape wines of Amarone and Recioto.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Corvinone
A distinct Valpolicella grape whose similar name to Corvina can hide a separate vineyard identity.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Garganega
The principal grape of Soave, with a story that reaches from fresh white wines to the dried-grape sweetness of Recioto di Soave.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Glera
Meet the grape, its regional connections and the wines it can become.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Rondinella
A Veronese blending grape that helps connect Valpolicella, the Garda landscape and several different cellar routes.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
Sicily
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Carricante
Etna’s principal white grape connects volcanic vineyard slopes with fresh wines, single-varietal bottlings and the patience of lees ageing.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Catarratto / Lucido
A Sicilian white-grape identity with several names on labels, dry-wine expressions and a place in blends from west to east.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Frappato
A fragrant Sicilian red grape that deserves a place beside its better-known blending partner, Nero d’Avola.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Grillo
A Sicilian white grape with an independent dry-wine identity and a connection to the western island’s wider wine traditions.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Inzolia / Ansonica
Known as Inzolia or Insolia in Sicily and Ansonica in the national register, this white grape links island wines with a wider Italian story.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Nerello Cappuccio
A separate Etna grape, often found beside Nerello Mascalese but also worth meeting in its own single-varietal expression.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Nerello Mascalese
A principal grape of Etna’s red wines, with a story of elevation, individual sites and expressions beyond a heavy-red stereotype.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Nero d’Avola
A familiar Sicilian red grape with room for fresh single-varietal wines, fuller expressions and the blend of Cerasuolo di Vittoria.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
Piedmont
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Arneis
Roero’s white-grape revival, with connections to Gisborne and Northland.
Actual Roero landscape; photograph source and context in the grape profile.
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Barbera
Meet the grape, its regional connections and the wines it can become.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
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Nebbiolo
Meet the grape, its regional connections and the wines it can become.
Regional illustration; explore the profile for context.
Tuscany
Northern Italy & wider connections
Southern Italy · Campania & Basilicata
Follow Aglianico into Taurasi, Taburno and Vulture, with its Arizona growing connections kept distinct.
Sardinia & Mediterranean connections
Vermentino links Sardinia with mainland Italian places, Corsica and Provence, where Rolle is a name to recognise.
Follow these grapes into the bottle.
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A grape-labelled wine can still combine vineyard parcels or cellar lots. Read the actual composition and the producer’s account.