PDOs and PGIs wines

Romagna DOCG e DOC

In 2011 the Consortium Vini di Romagna approved the production disciplinary “Romagna”. This specification includes all the previous names with the aim of safeguarding and promoting the Romagna territories and wines more effectively.

The new POD “Romagna” brings together the previous 5 guidelines (Sangiovese, Trebbiano, Cagnina, Pagadebit and Sparkling Romagna Albana) in a single denomination and modifies the DOCG with the new name Romagna Albana. The new regulation also provides for the possibility to indicate for Sangiovese one of the 12 additional geographical indications who identifies particularly suitable places that confer specific characteristics to each wine (sub-areas): Bertinoro, Brisighella, Castrocaro-Terra del Sole, Cesena, Longiano, Meldola, Modigliana, Marzeno, Oriolo, Predappio, San Vicinio, Serra.

Next to Romagna POD there is also the Colli di Faenza POD , which includes different types: Rosso, Sangiovese, Bianco, Trebbiano and Pinot Bianco.

Among the white wines, Albana is the queen of Romagna. It is the first Italian white wine to have obtained the DOCG in 1987! Cultivated for at least two thousand years in Romagna and probably introduced by the Romans, today this vine gives life to different versions of wine: dry, sweetish, sweet, raisin and sparkling.

Other white wines with an important history are Trebbiano, which is produced as still, frizzy or sparkling way, and the Pagadebit (the grape variety is the white Bombino Bianco), which owes its name to the abundant and constant productivity. In the past, in fact, the tenant winemakers were able to pay off their debts in every year with this grape.

The king of red wines is definitely the Sangiovese. This grape is so old in Romagna that it is difficult to trace with precision when it was introduced. In the various sub-areas in which the Romagna is divided, it expresses different nuances, always maintaining the essential traits of its elegant identity, capable of remarkable changes over time.


Less common red wine but with a strong personality is Centesimino, produced with the homonymous semi-aromatic grape variety spread in Faenza and in particular, in the Oriolo dei Fichi area.

Equally strong is the territorial link between Bagnacavallo and the Bursôn wine, a wine of great structure produced with Longanesi grape which takes its name from the family that discovered the vine in the early ’70s.

The history of the Grape of Tundè is also curious, a native vine of the city of Ravenna cultivated in small quantities.
We cannot forget from this list the wine Cagnina (from Terrano vine), a typical sweet wine traditionally combined with chestnuts.

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