Italian red wine
Enjoy the best red wines from Italy
The latitude, climate and landscape of Italy makes it the perfect country for producing quality red wines. In fact, wine is produced in all of the country’s twenty regions, so Italian red wine is a reflection of these regions and their varieties, soils and climates. To give you some examples, we might say that in Piedmont, reds from the DOCG Barolo are full-bodied dry red wines and those from the DOCG Barbaresco are more elegant and refined. Another example would be the Italian red wine from the DOC Bardolino, in Veneto, where they generally make young red wines with a ruby colour and a marked acidity.
There are 485 products.
Active filters
Fattoria di Magliano Morellino di Scansano Heba 2018
DOCG Morenillo di Scansano
(Tuscany)
- New
Planeta Etna Rosso 2019
DOC Etna
(Sicily)
- New
- New
Le Macchiole Bolgheri Rosso 2020
DOC Bolgheri Rosso
(Tuscany)
- New
- New
Pio Cesare Barbera D'Alba 2020
DOC Barbera d'Alba
(Piedmont)
- New
Brigaldara Valpolicella Ripasso Classico Superiore Il Vegro 2019
DOC Valpolicella Ripasso
(Veneto)
- New
Fattoria Rodano Chianti Classico 2019
DOCG Chianti Classico
(Tuscany)
- New
Elio Altare Cerretta Vigna Bricco Riserva Barolo 2016
DOCG Barolo Riserva
(Piedmont)
- New
Baroni Di Pianogrillo Dèracinè Nero D'Avola 2019
DOC Sicilia
(Sicily)
- New
- New
Feudi di San Gregorio Primitivo di Manduria 2021
DOC Primitivo di Manduria
(Apulia)
- New
Castello di Fonterutoli Chianti Classico Riserva Ser Lapo 2019
DOCG Chianti Classico Riserva
(Tuscany)
Luigi Tacchino Barbera del Monferrato 2016
DOP Barbera Monferrato
(Piedmont)
Capannelle Chianti Classico Riserva 2016
DOCG Chianti Classico
(Tuscany)
Masciarelli Iskra Montepulciano d'Abruzzo Riserva 2017
DOC Montepulciano d'Abruzzo
(Abruzzo)
Vigneti Massa Monleale 2014
DOC Colli Tortonesi
(Piedmont)
- New
Podere Il Castellaccio Valénte 2019
IGP Toscana
(Tuscany)
Varieties used to make Italian red wines.
Italy is a country that is lucky to have a long history of cultivation when it comes to grape varieties.
Perhaps the most famous grapes used to make Italian red wine are Nebbiolo and Sangiovese. The first is originally from Piedmont and makes very powerful, long aging red wines. The second is typical of Tuscany, and is usually used to make chiantis, easier wines with a somewhat lower aging potential.
Some of the most common varieties by area.
In the northwest of Italy, in Piedmont, the Nebbiolo, Barbera and Dolcetto varieties are most common. In the northeast, in Veneto, it’s the Corvina, Molinara and Rondinella varieties; in Friuli, Refosco; in the Trento-Alto Adige, Teroldego, Schiava and Lagrein. In the centre, in Tuscany, it is Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon. In the South, in Campania, Aglianico; in Apulia, Negroamaro, Malvasia Nera, Primitivo and Uva di Troia; in Sardinia, Cannonau and Carignano. Finally, in Sicily, it is mostly the Nero d’Avola and Nerello Mascalese varieties.
The Italian red wine scene is extremely rich and diverse thanks to the large number of varieties they grow, the different micro-climates and the diverse soils, with limestone, clay-stony and even volcanic soils. Would you like to try them?