A very popular, light-bodied, crisp wine that matches well with seafood.
A dry wine that has fruity aromas and flavors. Not "oaky" like US version.
A dry to medium-dry wine with a rich texture. It is full of herbaceous aromas and almond flavors.
The most interesting expression of the Cortese grape grown in Piedmont. Gavi is fruity and aromatic, occasionally filled with mineral notes and a tangy, citrus finish.
Generally a fresh white wine with a slightly oily texture and an almondy flavor. It is considered Tuscany’s best white wine.
An enormously popular wine that hails from northeast Italy. A very consistent, easy to drink, crisp, dry wine.
This wine is made from a blend of Corvina, Rodinella, and Molinara grapes. Valpolicella is noted as a full and fruity red with some acidity.
This wine is the most famous of Italy’s dry dried grape wines. Its grapes are selected from superior whole bunches which are dried or raisined in special drying lodges or chambers. Amarone, amply structured and long on the palate, is a rich, dry wine that ranks among Italy’s most authoritative red wines.
These wines are soft, round, fruity, and fragrant with flavors of liquorice and almonds.
This powerful red wine based on the Nebbiolo grape is grown around the village of Barbaresco in the Piedmont region in north west Italy.
The most powerful and dramatic expression of the Nebbiolo grape. A garnet hue; complex and expansive aromas of plums, dried roses, tar, and liquorice.
Chianti is a very dry wine that, like most Italian wines, tastes best with food. It often has an aroma of cherries and sometimes violets.
This wine is considered a "baby" Brunello because it is also made from a superior clone of the Sangiovese grape. However, unlike Brunello, which must be aged for four years, Rosso can be released after ageing only one year. This is a more medium-bodied wine with balanced acidity.
Deep color, full body, high alcohol, and low tannin are the characteristics of this wine. The aromas and flavors can be plummy or sometimes chocolatey.
This wine is considered one the greatest, long-lived red wines in existence. This stalwart cousin to Chianti is an intense, concentrated, tannic wine that ages gracefully.
The world’s most renowned grape variety for fine red wine.
These wines are described as the new class of superior wines labeled vino da tavola. These wines use a blend of grape varieties, such as cabernet sauvignon, merlot, sangiovese, and cabernet franc. Each wine has its own distinctive blend of grape varieties.
Other Italian Red Wines
The most famous sparkling wine of all is champagne, the archetypal sparkling wine made in northeastern France. Champagne, with its two champagne towns Rheims and Epernay, was the first region to make sparkling wine in any quantity and historically the name champagne became synonymous with the finest sparkling wines. According to the Institute National des Appellations d’Origine (the regulating organization for French wine), for a sparkling wine to be called champagne, it must come from the Champagne region in France.
These wines are made using the same basic method as French champagne, much of it from the same grape varieties, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Italians also produce a medium-sweet sparkling wine called Asti Spumante. Unlike champagne and other sparkling wines labeled Brut, Asti Spumante is not nearly as bone-dry and is much lighter in alcohol.
This bright, blood red wine, medium bodied moderately oaked and mildly tannic. Cherry tomato, brown spice and mushroom. The bright, vibrant acidity make for a crisp, fruity finish. $150
A blockbuster red wine. Shows an intense blackberry character offset by hints of wet earth. It's full in body, with full, mouth puckering tannins, yet a sweet and fruity after taste. $145
This is a beautifully rich and smooth Super-Tuscan wine produced from the vines of Marchesi di Frescobaldi with the imagination and architecture of Robert Mondavi. $175
A rich and full bodied, intense and elegant wine. Deep purple in color with a bouquet full of dried stone fruit. $180
A intense blackberry and cassis aroma, offset by notes of smoke and spice. A palate of lush concentration underscored by fir, ripe tannins carrying into a long, elegant finish. $350
Deep, rich color. Big, deep, chocolate, spice, clove and nutmeg nose. Plenty of toasty oak. $325
Intensely fruity and complex on the nose, with hints of wood full-bodied, rich and comlex in the mouth with exceptional structure and a lengthy finish. $195
Intense, glossy garnet red with faint, varnished orange reflections with Elegant scents of withered violet blackberry jam and spices. $152