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Italian wine

Discover the Italian wines selected by our sommeliers.

Italian wine is part of the culture of this country, always closely linked to food, the central axis of social life in Italy. And along with France and Spain, Italy is, of course, one of the countries with the richest winemaking traditions. Italian wine provides a great richness in terms of the quantity and diversity of grape varieties cultivated, in terms of the countless areas where wine is produced, as well as the production methods carried out by the thousands of wineries in the country. Wine from Tuscany, Piedmont, Sicily. Chianti, Barolo, Brunello. We can consider Italian wine as one of the benchmark wines in the world.

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Damijan Podversic Kaplja Bianco 2019

An aromatic, flavoursome and harmonious orange wine

Italy   IGT Venezia Giulia (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)

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Cantina Orsogna Lunaria Ruminat Primitivo 2022

A red wine produced in the world’s largest biodynamic community

Italy   Primitivo Terre Di Chieti IGP (Abruzzo)

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Ornellaia Le Volte 2021

The distinction of the Old World on Tuscan soil

Italy   IGP Toscana (Tuscany)

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G.D. Vajra Barbera D'Alba 2022

A fresh and exciting Barbera

Italy   DOC Barbera d'Alba (Piedmont)

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Ca' Lojera Lugana 2022

Typicity, freshness and minerality

Italy   DOC Lugana (Lombardia)

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Denavolo Dinavolino 2021

An orange wine on lees

Italy   Vino da Tavola (Emilia-Romagna)

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Podere Il Castellaccio Valénte 2019

A concentrated red wine that leaves its mark

Italy   IGP Toscana (Tuscany)

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Castello dei Rampolla Chianti Classico 2019

A red made mainly with Sangiovese from Chianti fermented in cement and aged...

Italy   DOCG Chianti Classico (Tuscany)

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Casa Belfi Bianco

Veneto - Authenticity and minerality

Italy   IGT Delle Venezie (Veneto)

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Cantina Giardino Le Fole 2019

A red wine with rustic beauty

Italy   IGP Campania (Campania)

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Ornellaia Le Serre Nuove 2020

Ornellaia’s “second wine”

Italy   DOC Bolgheri Superiore (Tuscany)

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Tornatore Etna Rosso 2020

A complex DOC Etna Rosso that is just right

Italy   DOC Etna Rosso (Sicily)

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Ronco Severo Friulano Colli Orientali 2020

An orange wine with great expressiveness and intensity

Italy   DOP Colli Orientali del Friuli (Friuli-Venezia Giulia)

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The ancient Greeks used to call Italy Oenotria (Land of wine), and with good reason! This famous boot-shaped country is covered with inland and peninsular vineyards, from tip to heel, from the Mediterranean to the Alps. Trying to understand and get to know the wine and vineyard classification system in Italy is really an endless adventure.

This country is overflowing with winemaking potential; there are approximately 377 recognised and classified native varieties. Some people think there could be even more than that. Each region produces wines with very unique and characteristic styles. This is possibly the country that offers the biggest variety of wines.

The Italian character is faithfully reflected in their wine legislation and in the wines they make. Italian wines are so varied that trying to classify them is a daunting task, quite literally.

Italian wine in numbers

To give you an idea, here is a snapshot of Italian wine in numbers:

-8.6 million tonnes of grapes harvested in 2018
-2nd place in world production, second only to China
-Around 700,000 hectares of vineyards, and counting...
-About 1000 different types of wines
-More than 300 different locations
-Around 377 native varieties
-20 winemaking regions
-4 different levels of Wine Quality Classification

Official classification of Italian wine

So much diversity in varieties, productions and geographical areas makes Italy’s wine quality classification system really complicated. Italian wine laws classify them in descending order as follows:

Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita (DOCG)
There are about 20 denominations that produce wines that meet the requirements of a DOC, which we will see below, and that are also bottled in the region they are produced and have been approved by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture.


Denominazione di Origine Controllata (DOC)
This is the equivalent of the French AOC (Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée) and specifies geographical area, variety and yields.

Indicazione Geografica Tipica (IGT).
This is the equivalent of France’s Vin de Pays and specifies the area the wines come from in a more general manner.


Vino da Tavola
This is the most basic wine classification, equivalent to table wines, which do not specify the origin of the grapes or where they come from. They are simply Italian wines.

These classifications unfortunately do not tell the whole story, because there are exceptional wines which, because of their characteristics cannot be classed as one of the two main quality levels.