55 denominations
Torrette
Aosta Valley · Petit Rouge
Born on Europe's highest terraces: few bottles, most of them drunk in the valley.
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Aosta Valley · Prié Blanc
Ungrafted vines above a thousand metres, never touched by phylloxera.
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Piedmont · Nebbiolo
Eleven villages, one grape: what changes everything is the hill.
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Piedmont · Nebbiolo
The same Nebbiolo as Barolo, on lighter soils: it arrives sooner.
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Piedmont · Barbera
Little tannin, plenty of acidity: the red Piedmont drinks every day.
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Piedmont · Cortese
A lean, saline white, grown a step away from Liguria.
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Piedmont · Moscato Bianco
Five and a half degrees: sweet, yet lighter than almost any other.
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Liguria · Vermentino
Terraced vines above the sea, held up by dry-stone walls.
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Liguria · Rossese
A slender, perfumed red, worth drinking cool even in summer.
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Lombardy · Chardonnay, Pinot Nero
Second fermentation in the bottle and long waits on the lees: Italy's classic method.
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Lombardy · Chiavennasca
In Valtellina, Nebbiolo changes name and character: leaner, more alpine.
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Trentino-South Tyrol · Teroldego
It grows on a plain of river stones: dark, direct, without frills.
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Trentino-South Tyrol · Traminer Aromatico
The grape takes its name from Tramin, the village where it was born.
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Trentino-South Tyrol · Chardonnay
Mountain bubbles: the grapes climb to where the vine struggles.
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Veneto · Corvina
The grapes dry for months before becoming wine: everything concentrates.
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Veneto · Corvina
The same grape as Amarone, but fresh and ready now.
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Veneto · Garganega
On volcanic soil, Garganega picks up a note of almond.
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Veneto · Glera
Hills so steep the harvest is still done by hand.
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Friuli Venezia Giulia · Ribolla Gialla
This is where Italian whites earned the world's respect, and where skin-contact wines began.
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Friuli Venezia Giulia · Friulano
It used to be called Tocai: the name changed, the wine did not.
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Friuli Venezia Giulia · Picolit
It sets very few berries per bunch: that is why it has always been rare.
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Emilia-Romagna · Lambrusco
A red that foams, born to sit at table with fat and salt.
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Emilia-Romagna · Sangiovese
The same grape as Tuscany's, with more flesh and less severity.
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Emilia-Romagna · Albana
The first Italian white to be granted DOCG status, in 1987.
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Tuscany · Sangiovese
Five years before it leaves the cellar: nobody is in a hurry here.
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Tuscany · Sangiovese
The black rooster marks a territory, not a winery.
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Tuscany · Prugnolo Gentile
Sangiovese under another name, on a hill that looks over two valleys.
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Tuscany · Vernaccia
The white Michelangelo said he preferred: recorded since 1276.
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Umbria · Sagrantino
Among the most tannic reds in the world, and it grows almost only here.
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Umbria · Grechetto
It used to age in the tuff caves dug beneath the city.
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Marche · Verdicchio
A white that ages like a red: after ten years it is still young.
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Marche · Montepulciano
It grows on a limestone headland dropping into the Adriatic.
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Lazio · Cesanese
Lazio's only native red, on a few hills east of Rome.
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Lazio · Malvasia del Lazio
The wine of the Castelli, drunk in Rome long before there was an Italy.
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Abruzzo · Montepulciano
Nothing to do with the Tuscan town: it is a grape, growing between sea and mountains.
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Abruzzo · Montepulciano
A rosé of full colour: in Abruzzo it is a denomination in its own right.
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Abruzzo · Trebbiano Abruzzese
Simple almost always, memorable in the hands of a few.
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Molise · Tintilia
The only native grape of Molise. It grows above five hundred metres and has never left.
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Molise · Falanghina
The same grape as Campania's, on colder and higher hills.
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Campania · Aglianico
Vines on volcanic soil, some never struck by phylloxera.
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Campania · Fiano
A white that takes on hazelnut and smoke with the years.
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Campania · Greco
The village is called Tufo, and the rock under the vines is the same.
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Campania · Falanghina
Grown here since before the Romans, and still the most drunk in the area.
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Apulia · Primitivo
It is called Primitivo because it ripens before all the others.
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Apulia · Negroamaro
Bush vines, low to the ground to stand the wind and the sun.
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Apulia · Negroamaro
In Puglia rosé is not a fashion: it has always been made.
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Basilicata · Aglianico
It grows on the flanks of an extinct volcano. Harvested in November, among Italy's last.
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Calabria · Gaglioppo
Among Italy's oldest wines: Greek athletes are said to have drunk it.
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Calabria · Greco Bianco
A dried-grape wine of a few thousand bottles, at the tip of the peninsula.
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Sicily · Nerello Mascalese
On Etna the harvest happens at a thousand metres, on black soil: each lava flow gives a different wine.
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Sicily · Nero d'Avola
The island's most planted red, and the one that carries its sun into the bottle.
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Sicily · Zibibbo
The vines grow in hollows dug into the ground, to shelter from the wind.
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Sicily · Grillo
Born for Marsala, today it makes saline whites to drink young.
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Sardinia · Cannonau
Very old vines, some over a hundred years, still producing and never grafted.
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Sardinia · Vermentino
Sardinia's only DOCG: granite below, sea wind above.
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Each entry is a denomination or a grape variety, not a bottle in a warehouse. The same denomination, made by different estates, gives different wines: that is why the final choice goes through a conversation and not through a filter.
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