Main 3 Wine Regions in Italy:
Tuscany
Piedmont
Veneto

Main Grapes to these regions:
Tuscany: Sangiovese, Brunello di Montalcino(big, bold and expensive), Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, Carmignano
Piedmont: Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo
Puglia: Primitivo (Zinfandel)
Sicily: Nero d’Avola
Cannonau: Grenache

Red Grapes of Italy
- Sangiovese: Tuscany, cherry fruit, earth, and cedar. It produces Chianti Classico, Rosso di Montalcino, Brunello di Montalcino, Rosso di Montepulciano, Montefalco Rosso, and many others
- Nebbiolo: means “little fog”, refers to the autumn fog that blankets most of Piedmont where it is grown, produces Barolo and Barbaresco, bouquet of wild mushroom, truffle, roses, and tar
- Montepulciano: Abruzzo, silky plum-like fruit, friendly acidity, and light tannin
- Barbera: Piedmont, Southern Lombardy, Asti and Alba, bright cherry fruit, a very dark color, and a food-friendly acidity
- Corvina: Veneto, produces Valpolicella and Amarone, Valpolicella wine has dark cherry fruit and spice. After the grapes undergo passito (a drying process), the Amarone they yield is elegant, dark, and full of raisinated fruits. Some Amarones can age for 40+ years.
- Nero d’Avola: Sicily, robust, inky wines, and has been nicknamed “the Barolo of the South”
- Dolcetto: Piedmont, means “little sweet one”, referring to the ease to which it is grown, flavors of concord grape, wild blackberries and herbs
- Negroamaro: Puglia, means “black and bitter”, spicy, toasty, and full of dark red fruits.
- Aglianico: Campania and Basilicata, thick skinned and spicy, rustic and powerful
-Sagrantino: Umbria, inky purple, with rustic brooding fruit and heavy tannins, these wines can age for many years.
- Malvasia Nera: Piedmont, sweet and perfumed wine