WhiteLead grape in 7
Vermentino
Also called Favorita, Pigato.
The white of the Tyrrhenian coast, from Liguria down through Tuscany to Sardinia, where it has its own DOCG in Gallura. Sea air, granite and sand suit it. It gives citrus, green almond and a saline, faintly bitter finish, with more body than you expect from something that tastes this fresh. Sardinia makes the fullest version, Liguria the tightest.
Worth knowing
It is the same vine as Pigato in Liguria and Favorita in Piedmont, which is a fact best introduced carefully in any of the three places. The differences that people taste are real, and they come from site and from selection rather than from the vine being different.
Where it is allowed25 appellations
Tuscany15
- BolgheriDOCTasted
- Candia dei Colli ApuaniDOClead grapemin 70% for biancoStill hunting
- CapalbioDOCStill hunting
- Colline LucchesiDOCStill hunting
- ElbaDOCStill hunting
- Maremma ToscanaDOCStill hunting
- MontecarloDOCStill hunting
- MontecuccoDOCStill hunting
- Monteregio di Massa MarittimaDOCStill hunting
- MontescudaioDOCStill hunting
- ParrinaDOCStill hunting
- San TorpèDOCStill hunting
- Terratico di BibbonaDOCStill hunting
- Val di CorniaDOClead grapeStill hunting
- ValdinievoleDOCStill hunting