Best Italian Wine Regions

Quality of the Italian wine regions has been growing steadily for about two decades. Now finally Italy's best wines are more desirable and more available than ever.


The Wine Regions of Northern Italy

The wines from Italy's very important northern regions: Piedmont Wine region, Lombardy and Emilia Romagna, Trentino-Alto-Adige, the Veneto Wine, and Friuli Venezia Giulia and relatively minor regions of Aosta Vally and Liguria.

Half of Italian wines you see in shops come from these regions.


The Wine Regions of Central Italy

Other Italian wines you're likely to see in wine shops, a huge percentage come from the Tuscany Wine region.

That's where you meet the Chianti Classico Wine and Brunello di Montalcino for example.

The wines from Umbria, Latium, Marche, Abruzzo and Molise are some of the best Italian wines regions.


The Wine Regions of Southern Italy

Italy's southern regions are hot Puglia, Campania Wines region, Basilicata and Calabria are making there best wines. What's more is that some of these wines are amazing values, especially if your favorite wine words are "red" and "powerful".

Italy's two huge islands with the Sicily Wines, Dry Sicily Wines, and the Sardinia Wine. These regions are equally making good wines in these days.

The 20 Italian Wine Regions

The Italian peninsula, with its long boot-like body, has the most recognizable shape of any country on earth. Italy is a small land; the whole country is less than three-quarters the size of California.

Despite its small size, Italy's role in the world of wine is huge!

• Italy has more vineyard land than any other country except Spain. Vines grow in every corner of the peninsula and the islands.

• Italy boats dozens of native grape varieties, many of which are successful only in Italy.

• Italy produces hundreds of wines, nearly 1,000 different types.

Politically, Italy today consists of 20 regions similar to states, these 20 political regions are also the Italian wine regions.

Because of the country's relative youth, diverse cultures exist in different parts of the country, and regional pride runs stronger than national pride.

Italian wines reflect these diverse cultures.


Diverse Conditions, Diverse Wines...

What makes Italy an ideal and unique territory for growing grapes is precisely its improbable combination of natural conditions:

• The range of latitudes creates a wide variety of climatic conditions from north to south.

• The foothills of the mountains provide slopes ideal for vineyards, as well as higher altitudes for cool climate grape growing.

• The varied terrain (seacoast, hills, and mountains) within many regions provides a diversity of growing conditions even within single regions.