Find your wine

Finding the wine you want is very simple: click on one of the entries in the table below, then eventually refine your search on the next page by clicking on the entries in the left column. You can also find your wine browsing the map of Italy.

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A journey of discovery through Italy's vineyards starts here. Navigating couldn't be easier. Just click on the Italian regions that interest you and the tour begins. As you travel through the vineyards of Italy, you'll discover wines you probably never imagined existed. Italy has a history of wine-making that dates back nearly 3,000 years. In fact, grapevines have been cultivated in Italy since the second millennium BC, when Italians came into contact with people from Crete. However, it was not until the emergence of civilisation in Rome that wine-making became a real art. The Romans allocated the role of protector of the vines to their god, Bacchus, who was honoured in riotous Bacchanalian festivals which eventually had to be suppressed by a decree in 186 BC. With the fall of the Roman Empire the dark ages began, dark for both humanity and for the art of wine-making. During the mediaeval period, which brought famine, pestilence and destruction, it was largely the church, with its need for wine for the communion, that prevented grapevines from returning to their wild state. With the passing of a new millennium and the advent of the Italian City States commerce returned, and wine occupied an important position among the goods exchanged. Between 1500 and 1700 certain wines became famous: Albana in Romagna, the wines of Montalcino and San Gimignano in Tuscany, Aleatico in Lazio, Ellenico in Campania and Mamertino in Sicily, some of which are still widely known today. In 1716 the first decree to define the rules for the production of a wine was issued by Cosimo III de' Medici for Chianti in Tuscany. Industrial wine production did not begin until the end of the nineteenth century. John Woodhouse, an Englishman, was one of the first to make use of modern wine-making techniques with the production of Marsala in Sicily. Unfortunately, this was also the period when phylloxera, a grapevine disease originating from America, drastically hit wine-making in Italy and abroad. In a few years this disease completely destroyed native Italian grapevines, which had to be reintroduced from American stock. Following the replanting of the vines, wine-making in Italy concentrated on quantity rather than quality. It was only after the Second World War with the advent of the laws of "Denominazione di Origine Controllata" (D.O.C. and D.O.C.G.) that wine-making in Italy flourished again, concentrating on the production of quality wines that are now valued by wine enthusiasts and experts throughout the world. It was during this period that smaller wine-making companies emerged, showing an astonishing level of dedication to cultivation, traditional wine-making techniques and, above all, quality.

Click on a region to discover its history and its wines

Italia

sardegna sicilia calabria basilicata puglia campania molise abruzzo lazio marche umbria toscana emilia-romagna liguria friuli-venezia-giulia veneto trentino-alto-adige lombardia piemonte valle-d-aosta

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