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Italian Wine Regions
Discover the most beautiful wine regions in Italy
There is a lot of delicious wine to discover in Italy. But where exactly can you find the most beautiful wine regions and wine cities of Italy? And what (or who) actually determines what the most beautiful wine region in Italy is?
On this page I will take you along the most famous and beautiful Italian wine regions.
I also give you an overview of all 358 Italian wine regions. I have not come across such an overview anywhere else. So it’s quite unique. You might keep it as a reference if you want to know which wine regions there are in Italy.
Definition of a wine region
Let me start with the definition of a wine region. Because we will probably not agree on what is the most beautiful, nicest or most famous. There is so much personal preference and taste involved.
A wine region is a geographical area of vineyards where grapes are grown to make wine. In a number of cases these area names correspond to the DOCG, DOC and IGP/IGT wines of Italy. But that is not always the case.
My personal 10 best wine regions in Italy
An 'absolute' overview of the best wine regions in Italy is actually not possible. It might be an idea for the future, bot for now I will limit the top 10 wine regions to my personal favorites. After all, it remains very personal. No top 10 list can compete with that.
Maybe one day I'll organize an annual Top 10 of Italian wine regions.
At the moment - unfortunately I have not yet been to all the wine regions yet - my list of the 10 most beautiful wine regions in Italy consists of:
Conegliano Valdobbiadene - Prosecco (wine region) - Veneto (Italian geographical region)
Valpolicella - Veneto
Franciacorta - Lombardy
Soave - Veneto
Montepulciano - Tuscany
Montefalco - Umbria
Alghero - Sardinia
Chianti - Tuscany (our first tasting at Cantine Leonardo da Vinci)
Alba - Piedmont
Cinque Terre - Liguria
I was driven by a combination of the taste of the wine and the environment where I tasted the wine at one (and often several) of the local wineries. The exception in the above list is Cinque Terre. We have been there and I have also tasted the wine. But we didn't get around to visit a winery at that time. So we will return to Cinque Terre for a winery tasting. But in the meantime, there are still so many regions on our list, that we will be busy in the coming years. And then we would also like to return to the Prosecco area, to Sardinia. And to the great wine regions around Verona and Lake Garda. With the Valpolicella (red, the Amarone!) and Soave (the white Soave Classico) as most welcome guests at our table 😀.
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Below you will find my first version of the overview of all wine regions in Italy. If you have any comments/additions, please let us know!
I have grouped all wine regions by Italian regions and sorted them by regions from north to south. Just like the overviews of all official Italian wine routes. And the DOCG wines, the DOC wines and the IGT/IGP wines of Italy.
Discover all 358 Italian wine regions (autumn 2023, sorted by Italian (wine) region).
Wine region Aosta Valley
Morgex-La Salle
Enfer
Torrette
Chambave
Nus
Arnad-Montjovet
Donnas
Wine region Piedmont (il Monferrato)
Gavi (Cortese di Gavi)
Monferrato
Alto Monferrato
Casale Monferrato
Colli Tortonesi
Acqui
Gabiano
Cantavenna
Strevi
Wine region Piedmont (Noorden)
Caluso
Gattinara
Ghemme
Boca
Bramaterra
Canavese
Carema
Colline Novaresi
Colline Saluzzesi
Coste della Sesia
Fara
Chieri
Lessona
Pinerolese
Sizzano
Valli Ossolane
Valsusa
Wine region Piedmont (l’Astigiano)
Asti
Nizza Monferrato
Castagnole Monferrato
Terre Alfieri
Albugnano
Calosso
Loazzolo
Casorzo
Castelnuovo Don Bosco
Wine region Piemont (le Langhe)
Alta Langa
Barbaresco
Barolo
Dogliani
Alba
Ovada
Roero
Langhe
Verduno
Wine region Liguria
Cinque Terre
Colli di Luni
Colline di Levanto
Dolceacqua
Golfo del Tigullio-Portofino (Portofino)
Pornassio (Ormeasco di Pornassio)
Riviera Ligure di Ponente
Val Polcèvera
Wine region Lombardy
Oltrepò Pavese
Scanzo
Valtellina
Botticino
Capriano del Colle / Montenetto
Casteggio
Cellatica
Garda
Mantovani
Lugana
Riviera del Garda Classico
San Colombano al Lambro (San Colombano)
San Martino della Battaglia
Terre di Colleoni (Colleoni)
Valcalepio
Terre Lariane
Valcamonica
Wine region Trentino-Alto Adige / South Tirol
Alto Adige / dell’Alto Adige of (Südtirol / Südtiroler)
Casteller
Lago di Caldaro / Caldaro of (Kalterersee / Kalterer)
Teroldego Rotaliano
Trentino
Trento
Valdadige (Etschtaler)
Valdadige Terradeiforti (Terradeiforti)
Wine region Veneto
Valpolicella
Valpolicella Classico
Valpolicella Valpantena (Valpantena)
Asolo (Asolo Prosecco)
Bagnoli
Bardolino
Bardolino Classico
Colli di Conegliano
Colli Euganei
Conegliano Valdobbiadene-Prosecco
Lison (samen met)
Montello
Piave
Gambellara
Soave Colli Scaligeri
Arcole
Bagnoli di Sopra (Bagnoli)
Custoza
Breganze
Colli Berici
Colli Euganei
Corti Benedettine del Padovano
delle Venezie (Beneških Okolišev)
Garda (samen met)
Lessini Durello (Durello Lessini)
Lison-Pramaggiore
Lugana
Merlara
Asolo Montello
Monti Lessini
Piave
Riviera del Brenta
San Martino della Battaglia
Valdadige (Etschtaler)
Valdadige Terradeiforti (Terradeiforti)
Vicenza
Serenissima
Wine region Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Annia
Aquileia
Carso
Collio (of Collio Goriziano)
Colli Orientali
Friuli
Grave
Isonzo
Latisana
Lison
Lison-Pramaggiore
Ramandolo
Rosazzo
Wine region Emilia-Romagna
Colli Bolognesi
Bosco Eliceo
Colli d’Imola
Colli di Faenza
Colli di Parma
Colli di Rimini
Colli di Scandiano e di Canossa
Colli Piacentini
Colli Romagna Centrale
Gutturnio
Sorbara
Castelvetro
Santa Croce
Modena
Reggiano
Reno
Romagna
Wine region Tuscany (the 'ancient' hart)
Carmignano
Chianti Colli Aretini
Chianti Colli Fiorentini
Chianti Colli Senesi
Chianti Colline Pisane
Chianti Montalbano
Chianti Montespertoli
Chianti Rufina
San Gimignano
Montepulciano
Empolese
Colli dell’Etruria Centrale
Orcia
Pomino
Sant’Antimo
Val d’Arbia
You can also check out the Tuscany Wine Map
Wine region Tuscany (other)
Elba
Montecucco
Scansano
Suvereto - Val di Cornia
Costa dell’Argentario
Pitigliano
Candia dei Colli Apuani
Capalbio
Colli di Luni
Colline Lucchesi
Cortona
Grance Senesi
Maremma Toscana
Montecarlo
Monteregio di Massa Marittima
Montescudaio
Parrina
San Torpè
Sovana
Terratico di Bibbona
Terre di Casole
Terre di Pisa
Val d’Arno di Sopra (Valdarno di Sopra)
Valdichiana Toscana
Valdinievole
You can check out the new Tuscany Wine Map
Wine region Umbria
Montefalco
Torgiano
Amelia
Assisi
Colli Altotiberini
Colli del Trasimeno (Trasimeno)
Colli Martani
Colli Perugini
Lago di Corbara
Orvieto
Spoleto
Todi
Wine region Marche
Castelli di Jesi
Cònero
Offida
Matelica
Serrapetrona
Metauro
Colli Maceratesi
Colli Pesaresi
Esino
Falerio
Sanseverino
Lacrima di Morro (Lacrima di Morro d’Alba)
Pergola
Piceno
San Ginesio
Serrapetrona
Wine region Lazio
Frascati
Piglio
Gradoli
Aprilia
Atina
Capena
Castelli Romani
Cerveteri
Affile
Olevano Romano
Circeo
Colli Albani
Colli della Sabina
Colli Etruschi Viterbesi (Tuscia)
Colli Lanuvini
Cori
Montefiascone
Genazzano
Marino
Montecompatri Colonna
Nettuno
Orvieto
Roma
Tarquinia
Terracina
Velletri
Vignanello
Zagarolo
Wijnregio Abruzzo
Colline Teramane
Terre Tollesi (Tullum)
Abruzzo
Controguerra
Ortona
Villamagna
Wijnregio Molise
Biferno
Pentro d'Isernia
Wijnregio Campanië
Campi Flegrei
Sannio
Taburno
Irpinia
Cilento
Avellino
Tufo
Taurasi
Aversa
Capri
Casavecchia di Pontelatone
Castel San Lorenzo
Costa d’Amalá¼€
Falerno del Massico
Galluccio
Ischia
Penisola Sorrentina
Vesuvio
Wine region Apulia
Castel del Monte
Manduria
Alezio
Barletta
Brindisi
Cacc’è mmitte di Lucera
Colline Joniche Tarantine
Copertino
Galatina
Gioia del Colle
Gravina
Leverano
Lizzano
Locorotondo
Martina (Martina Franca)
Matino
Trani
Nardò
Terra d’Otranto
Orta Nova
Ostuni
Cerignola
Salice Salentino
San Severo
Squinzano
Wine region Basilicata
Vulture
Matera
Roccanova
Val d'Agri
Wine region Calabria
Bivongi
Cirò
Bianco
Lamezia
Melissa
Sant'Anna di Isola Capo Rizzuto
Savuto
Scavigna
Cosenza
Wine region Sardinia
Gallura
Arborea
Cagliari
Campidano di Terralba
Sulcis
Bosa
Sorso-Sennori (Sorso o Sennori)
Oristano
Mogoro
Dorgali
Oliena
Capo Ferrato
Jerzu
Tempio Pausania
Wine region Sicily
Vittoria
Vittoria Classico
Alcamo
Contea di Sclafani (Valledolmo – Contea di Sclafani)
Contessa Entellina
Delia Nivolelli
Eloro
Erice
Etna
Faro
Lipari
Mamertino di Milazzo (Mamertino)
Marsala
Menfi
Monreale
Noto
Pantelleria
Riesi
Salaparuta
Sambuca di Sicilia
Santa Margherita di Belice
Sciacca
Siracusa
The best (most famous) wine regions of Italy on the internet
If you don’t look at the above grouping of wine regions and view the wine regions as geographical regions (and this happens most often when there are online lists of best wine regions around), then we will probably have a top 5 wine regions list like:
As already mentioned, these are the geographical regions of Italy. In Tuscany alone there are a large number of wine regions that rank among the top in the country. And probably even to the top of the world. Think of Bolgheri, Montalcino, Montepulciano and Chianti Classico.
What is your favorite wine region in Italy?
You have read about my personel favorites on this page. But, as with so many things in life, it's all very personal. A beautiful memory often determines what your favorite wine region is.
I'm curious about your favorite wine regions or wine cities. Let me know!
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