Native Grapes for Olympians

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

Regional Vineyard:

Total Vineyard Size

10,028 hectares is the total size of the regional vineyard for the combined production of Quality wines, Table wines & Table grapes

Dedicated to Quality

Of the total, 3,189 hectares are dedicated to producing grapes for Quality wines.

Notable Cru/Zones:

Bivogni

Cirò

Greco di Bianco

Lamezia

Melissa

Sant Anna Isola Capo Rizzuto

Savuto

Scavigna

Terre di Cosenza

Wine Style/Quality:

% RED

77.1%

% WHITE

22.9%

% DOP / IGP

2013 figures estimate 35% of wines from Calabria are produced according to EU DOP Quality standards. The region produces 9 DOP – DOC wines. They also produce 13 IGP wines accounting for 10% of production. Table wines account for 55% of output.

CALABRIA – 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

CASTIGLIONE

GAGLIOPPO

GRECO NERO

GRECO NERO DI SIBARI

MAGLIOCCO CANINO

MAGLIOCCO DOLCE

PRUNESTA

NATIVE WHITES

ADDORACA

GRECO BIANCO

GUARDAVALLE

MANTONICO 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 its purchase !
Lavinium – Italian wines & culture. Brilliant site. Only in Italian. So 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 :)