Wines & Blends / Italy
Follow a connection · Find your next discovery
Italian Wines & Blends
From Prosecco and Soave to Amarone, Cerasuolo di Vittoria and Marsala, follow the region into the finished wine.
Choose a regional group, then follow a named wine into its grape composition and cellar method. These introductions include blends and wines that may use a single grape.
Veneto
Amarone della Valpolicella
Discover Amarone della Valpolicella grapes, appassimento and the dry-wine route, with clear comparisons to Recioto and Ripasso.
Prosecco
Glera takes the lead, and the cellar usually captures the sparkle in a pressure tank. Start with the full name on the bottle.
Recioto della Valpolicella
Explore Recioto della Valpolicella as a sweet red wine from dried grapes, distinct from Amarone and Recioto di Soave.
Soave Wines
Explore Soave wines through Garganega, permitted blends, Classico origins, concrete and lees choices, and the separate sweet Recioto route.
Valpolicella Ripasso
Understand Valpolicella Ripasso through its grapes, further fermentation on pomace and the differences from Valpolicella and Amarone.
Valpolicella Wines
Explore Valpolicella wines through their grapes, fresh-red route and connections to Amarone, Recioto and Ripasso.
Sicily
Carricante Wines
Explore Carricante wines through Benanti Pietra Marina, Etna Bianco Superiore, Milo, 100% grape composition and extended lees maturation in steel.
Cerasuolo di Vittoria
Discover Cerasuolo di Vittoria DOCG, Sicily’s red blend of Nero d’Avola and Frappato, with a documented producer example.
Etna Wines
Explore Etna wines through Nerello Mascalese, Carricante, blends, single-varietal examples, vineyard sites and cellar decisions.
Frappato Wines
Explore single-varietal Frappato wines through Planeta’s 2025 Vittoria DOC example, steel fermentation and maturation, and the Cerasuolo di Vittoria blend.
Grillo Wines
Discover dry still Grillo wines through Donnafugata SurSur 2025, steel fermentation, tank and bottle maturation, and the separate Marsala connection.
Marsala Wines
Discover Marsala DOC through fortification, ageing categories, sweetness and a Florio cellar example, with connections to Sicilian grapes.
Nero d’Avola Wines
Discover Nero d’Avola wines through Planeta Plumbago 2023, single-grape composition, steel fermentation, oak maturation and the Cerasuolo blend connection.
Tuscany
Chianti & Chianti Classico
Two Tuscan appellations, one important grape, and a distinction that deserves more than an extra word on the label.
Piedmont
Barolo & Barbaresco
Two named wines, one grape: Nebbiolo shows why a single-grape wine still has a whole cellar story to tell.
Meet the ingredients and places.
Italian Grape Varieties → Italy Wine Regions → Appellations & Cru →