volcanic activity meets native grape creativity

A little light info to get us all started on CAMPANIA:

Regional Vineyard:

Total Vineyard Size

The total regional vineyard, including all quality levels, table wines & table grapes comprises 23,281 hectares.

Dedicated to Quality

Of the total, there are 9,515 hectares dedicated to producing grapes for Quality wines.

Notable Cru/Zones:

Avellino*

Campania’s 2 White DOCG’s can be found in and around here – FIANO di Avellino and Greco di Tufo

Aversa

Campi Flegrei*

Look out for the native white Falanghina Flegrei

Capri

Castel San Lorenzo

Costa d’Amalfi

Falerno del Massico

Galluccio

Guardia Sanframondi

Irpinia

Ischia

Penisola Sorrentina

Sannio

Taburno*

Northwest of Avellino, near Benevento is where you’ll find Taburno and Aglianico del Taburno is one of Campania’s 2 native red DOCG’s. Quality.

Taurasi*

East of Avellino, the 2nd regional red DOCG and other possible native home of Quality Aglianico :) Note, here it’s not always found in purezza, unlike in nearby Vulture, Basilicata where 100% varietals are produced.

Vesuvio*

On the coast, south of Napoli, here you’re looking for native white ‘Coda di Volpe’ and native red ‘Piedirosso’

Wine Style/Quality:

% RED

53.3%

% WHITE

46.7%

% DOP / IGP

According to 2013 figures, an estimated 16.9% of Campania’s wines are produced according to EU DOP Quality standards. Campania produces 19 DOP wines including *4 DOCG & *15 DOC. One step down from the DOC level, they also produce 9 IGP wines accounting for 11.4% of production. Table wines account for 71% of regional production.

CAMPANIA – NATIVE GRAPES

As always, a number of the regions native grape varieties are used only for blending purposes. That said, we’ve listed those grapes which we understand might be available as mono-varietals or which are interesting blenders. Naturally, as we make our own discovery, we’ll update these lists.

NATIVE REDS

Aglianico*

Goes into make top reds – Taurasi and Aglianico del Taburno

Agliancone

Barbera del Sannio

Calabrese di Montenuovo

Casavecchia*

Min 85% goes into Casavecchia di Pontelatone DOC

Pallagrello Nero

Piedirosso

Sabato

Sciascinoso

Suppezza

Tintorie di Tramonti

Tronto

NATIVE WHITES

Asprinio*

Another name for Greco…or so they say. We want to learn more.

Cacamosca*

Priceless name for this rare native, which translated roughly means ‘Fly Sh*te’. Not only rare, we hear it goes to blend. But who knows, maybe there is a varietal down there?

Caprettone

Cerretto

Coda di Cavallo Bianco

Coda di Pecora

Coda di Volpe Bianca

Falanghina Bianco

Falanghina Flegrei

Fiano*

Makes top DOCG whites, nuff said. Try it out.

Ginestra

Greco*

Another top native white that goes to produce the DOCG Greco di Tufo

Pallagrello Bianco

Pepella

Ripolo

Rovello Bianco

OUR STATSOURCES

ISTAT – Italy’s Istituto Nazionale delle Statistiche (Census 2010 / Vineyard Production Figures 2013)
AIS – The Association of Italian Sommeliers
‘I Numeri del Vino’ – Marco Baccaglio’s top Italian blog – lots of numbers :)
Wine Grapes – Robinson, Harding & Vouillamoz – lots of great grape stuff – BUY IT !
Native Wine Grapes of Italy – Ian D’Agata – extensive – Highly recommend u get your hands on a copy.
Lavinium – Italian wine, food & culture. Brilliant. Only in Italian. Great reason to learn Italian!! www.lavinium.com

vintage information

All data is intended to be for indicative purposes only due to the variability from vintage to vintage. But we do try to keep ourselves ‘reasonably’ updated :)