Appellations and regions of Italian wine

The original Chianti, between Florence and Siena — and the appellation that spent forty years learning to stop diluting itself.

614 Wines · 211 Producer

The steep hills between Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, where Prosecco stops being a commodity and starts being a place.

581 Wines · 136 Producer

One grape, eleven communes, and soils that change the wine more than the winemaker does.

68 Wines · 23 Producer

Sangiovese given five years and a hilltop in southern Tuscany, and asked to behave like a completely different grape.

128 Wines · 60 Producer

Grapes dried for three or four months until they have lost a third of their weight — the most extreme thing routinely done to a red wine in Italy.

92 Wines · 57 Producer

The everyday wine of the Verona hills, and the appellation whose middle tier was invented to bridge the gap to Amarone.

143 Wines · 62 Producer

Italy's benchmark for bottle-fermented sparkling wine, and the only one with a style nobody else is allowed to make.

68 Wines · 31 Producer

Pale, brisk red from the eastern shore of Lake Garda — a wine that finally stopped apologising for being light.

77 Wines · 30 Producer

The flatland appellation that made Prosecco a global phenomenon — and had to rename the grape to do it.

134 Wines · 53 Producer

One DOCG, two very different wines — and the proof that a sweet, low-alcohol wine can be a serious one.

45 Wines · 29 Producer

Piedmont's everyday red, treated as the lesser grape for two centuries, then shown to be capable of something else entirely.

84 Wines · 32 Producer

The same Sangiovese, the same hill, one year instead of five — the most honest way to get to know a Montalcino producer.

59 Wines · 49 Producer

The large appellation wrapped around Chianti Classico — routinely confused with it, and hiding a sub-zone that deserves its own reputation.

52 Wines · 31 Producer

The same Nebbiolo as Barolo, fifteen kilometres further east, with a river changing everything.

31 Wines · 15 Producer

Garganega on volcanic basalt — and the Italian white most damaged by its own commercial success.

26 Wines · 16 Producer

Piedmont's traditional-method sparkling: first in Italy to be made, last to be recognised.

23 Wines · 15 Producer

Not a grape but a family, and not a sweet wine but — at home — almost always a dry one.

23 Wines · 5 Producer

A clay-grown white on the southern shore of Lake Garda, straddling two regions, that ages far better than its reputation suggests.

20 Wines · 13 Producer