Click here to return to the list of regions with wines which are good for lamb. You can also search for another dish.
This aged red wine is based on the same grape composition as the unaged type of Eloro Pachino. The wine is cultivated around the city Pachino, which is also a subzone under the Eloro DOC.
Read more
Eloro Rosso is a red wine based on the grapes Nero d’Avola and/or Frappato or Pignatello (90-100%), with permission to add local red grapes (0-10%).
Read more
The local grape, Perricone (Pignatello), is used here as the primary grape (85-100%) and gives an intense, ruby red wine. Local red grapes can also be added (0-15%).
Read more
This red wine uses the same grape composition as the unaged Erice Rosso, so a combination of the grapes Calabrese and/or Nero d’Avola (60-100%), with permission to use local, non-aromatic red grapes (0-40%).
Read more
Vittoria Frappato DOC is a red wine made from the grape of the same name. There can also be added an additional 15% of other, local red grapes to Frappato (minimum 85%).
Read more
Did you know?
That Italy in 2011 was the worlds largest wine producer?
It's unknown where the name Abruzzo comes from, but after the fall of the Roman Empire, the region's land areas were subjected to a number of dynasties, and for several hundred years they were ruled from the south as a part of the Napoli kingdom.
Popular wines
Wine dictionary