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Home > Is it a Grape or a Place?
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Is It a Grape or a Place? The Italian Conundrum
One of the difficult and somewhat confusing aspects of Italian wine is this: In many regions, wines are sometimes named after the grape variety used to make them and at other times named after the place where the grapes grew. Two of the most important wines in Piedmont, for example, are barbera and Barolo. The wine barbera is named for barbera, the grape from which it's made, while the wine Barolo is named after the village of Barolo, its home. To make matters even more complex, the names of some Italian wines (and even some grapes) combine both grape and place! The wine named montepulciano d'Abruzzo, for example, pairs montepulciano, the grape with Abruzzo, the place.
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