A complete list of DOCGs?
As the world of Italian wine prepares to gather at Vinitaly, Vini Veri, and VinNatur later this week, the editors of VinoWire were thrilled to see an up-to-date posting of DOCGs by Alfonso Cevola, Italian Wine Director for Glazers, Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News, and author of On the Wine Trail in Italy and The Blend.
Click here for the Italian Agriculture Ministry’s most recently updated list (December 2008).
The following list appears in Alfonso Cevola’s post The Best Italian DOCG list?
Complete Listing of Italian DOCG Wines (as of March 2009): 44
Abruzzo (1)
Montepulciano d’Abruzzo “Colline Teramane”
Campania (3)
Fiano di Avellino
Greco di Tufo
Taurasi
Emilia Romagna (1)
Albana di Romagna
Friuli-Venezia Giulia (2)
Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit
Ramandolo
Lazio (1)
Cesanese del Piglio
Lombardia (5)
Franciacorta
Oltrepo Pavese
Sforzato della Valtellina
Valtellina Superiore
Moscato di Scanzo (new)
Marche (2)
Conero
Vernaccia di Serrapetrona
Piemonte (12)
Asti spumante – Moscato d’Asti
Barbaresco
Barbera d’Asti
Barbera del Monferrato Superiore
Barolo (Chinato, as well, falls under this DOCG)
Brachetto D’Acqui o Acqui
Dolcetto di Dogliani Superiore o Dogliani
Dolcetto di Ovada Superiore
Gattinara
Gavi o Cortese di Gavi
Ghemme
Roero
Sardegna (1)
Vermentino di Gallura
Sicilia (1)
Cerasuolo di Vittoria
Toscana (8)
Brunello di Montalcino
Carmignano
Chianti
Chianti Classico
Elba Aleatico Passito (new)
Morellino di Scansano
Vernaccia di S.Gimignano
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano
Umbria (2)
Montefalco Sagrantino
Torgiano Rosso Riserva
Veneto (5)
Bardolino Superiore
Recioto di Gambellara
Recioto di Soave
Soave Superiore
Conegliano Valdobbiadene and Colli Asolani (new)
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I hope that the DOCG’sname Dolcetto di Ovada Superiore will eventually be Ovada.
Altghouugh I still fail to see DOCG’s roles vs new O.C.M. …
Alfonso:
Thanks. It gets so difficult to keep up with this, so your work compiling this list is appreciated!
Just to clarify for the readers, Roero includes both Roero Rosso and the Roero Arneis.
Thanks, Tom, I’ll append my list to show that…btw enjoyed your recent “Guide”
[...] The DOC label assurance was launched in Italy in 1962, and was modeled on France’s AOC system. By 1980, the DOC list had become so crowded the DOCG was introduced to give greater importance to Italy’s top-drawer wines. Or as Italian wine expert Robert Scibelli himself once put it to me, it was the government’s way of saying “this time we really mean it.” Today there is some debate as to the number of wines which currently make up the DOCG list. With wine experts, bloggers and even the Italian Ministry of Agriculture seemingly unable to settle on the same figure, estimates typically fluctuating anywhere between 32 and 45 appellations. Italian wine blog VinoWire (I like to think of it as the Reuters for Italian wine) has a pretty comprehensive and up-to-date take on the matter here. [...]