Greco
The greco family is a large family of white Italian grapes of Greek origin, as the name suggests. A vine as noble as it is ancient, its cultivation dates back at least to the first century B.C., in Roman times, as attested by Virgil, who mentions this typology in the Georgics as "aminea gemella". Initially widespread in Vesuvius, greco is now present in various Italian regions, sometimes with different names. In Calabria, it gives life to the most important regional whites, of Mediterranean saline minerality, but also to the Greco di Bianco DOC, a sweet wine made from dried grapes of very ancient origin. It is also present in Puglia, where it gives pleasant wines, which are vegetal and floral, which also make good spumante or sparkling wines.
![Feudi di San Gregorio Metodo Classico Dubl Brut](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/dublbru_anv800.png)
Feudi di San Gregorio Metodo Classico Dubl Brut
![Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo 2023](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/feugr23_anv800.png)
![Benito Ferrara Greco di Tufo Vigna Cicogna 2022](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/cicog22_anv800.png)
Benito Ferrara Greco di Tufo Vigna Cicogna 2022
![Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo Cutizzi 2022](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/cutiz22_anv800.png)
Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo Cutizzi 2022
![Vigne Storte Greco del Sannio Luì 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/viggr18_anv800.png)
![L'Archetipo Greco Bianco 2021](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/arcgr21_anv800.png)
![Calcarius Puglia Bianco Hellen 2019](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/ccheb19_anv800.png)
![Fontanavecchia Greco 2017](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/fongr17_anv800.png)
![Cantina del Taburno Beneventano Greco 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/ctgre18_anv800.png)
!['A Vita Leukò 2019](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/vtleu19_anv800.png)
![Vinosìa Greco di Tufo L'Ariella 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/vsari18_anv800.png)
![San Salvatore Greco Elea 2016](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/sanel16_anv800.png)
![Quintodecimo Greco di Tufo Giallo d'Arles 2021](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/arles21_anv800.png)
![Dell'Angelo Greco di Tufo Miniere 2017](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/dllmi17_anv800.png)
![Di Majo Norante Greco del Molise 2019](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/dmgre19_anv800.png)
![Cincinnato Greco Pantaleo 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/cinpa18_anv800.png)
![Manimurci Zagreo 2015](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/mangr15_anv800.png)
![Torricino Raone 2013](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/raone13_anv800.png)
![La Guardiense Janare Greco Pietralata 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/lgpie18_anv800.png)
![Torricino Greco di Tufo 2021](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/torgt21_anv800.png)
![Librandi Cirò Bianco 2020](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/libcb20_anv800.png)
![Colli di Lapio Greco di Tufo Alèxandros 2017](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/cdlgr17_anv800.png)
![Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo Laura 2016](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/flaur16_anv800.png)
Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo Laura 2016
![Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo Bussi 2016](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/fbuss16_anv800.png)
Feudi di San Gregorio Greco di Tufo Bussi 2016
![Pietracupa Greco di Tufo 2019](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/ptrgt19_anv800.png)
![Terre Nobili Santa Chiara 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/sanch18_anv800.png)
![Fatalone Greco Bianco Spinomarino 2019](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/spino19_anv800.png)
![Criserà Greco Bianco Duale 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/crdub18_anv800.png)
![Villa Matilde Greco di Tufo 2020](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/vmgre20_anv800_1642502549.png)
![La Guardiense Janare Greco 2020](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/lggre20_anv800.png)
![Alois Greco di Tufo Donna Paolina 2016](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/paogr16_anv800.png)
![Dell'Angelo Greco di Tufo Torrefavale 2018](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/dllto18_anv800.png)
![Borgodangelo Greco di Tufo 2017](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/borgr17_anv800.png)
![Ciro Picariello Greco di Tufo 2020](https://cdn.vinissimus.com/img/unsafe/p194x/plain/local:///prfmtgrande/vi/cpgre20_anv800.png)
Greco
The greco family is a large family of white Italian grapes of Greek origin, as the name suggests. A vine as noble as it is ancient, its cultivation dates back at least to the first century B.C., in Roman times, as attested by Virgil, who mentions this typology in the Georgics as "aminea gemella". Initially widespread in Vesuvius, greco is now present in various Italian regions, sometimes with different names. In Calabria, it gives life to the most important regional whites, of Mediterranean saline minerality, but also to the Greco di Bianco DOC, a sweet wine made from dried grapes of very ancient origin. It is also present in Puglia, where it gives pleasant wines, which are vegetal and floral, which also make good spumante or sparkling wines.
But the most significant expression is certainly the one from Campania, and in particular in the Greco di Tufo variety, a small town in Irpinia where an important DOCG is dedicated to this wine. Straw-coloured with golden hues, it expresses fruity fragrances of yellow, exotic, ripe fruit flesh, but above all, and in particular Tufo, chalky, mineral, straight, sharp fragrances, which can veer towards hydrocarbon with age. Of good softness already when young, greco, usually in only steel, is definitely less long-lived than fiano, but expresses from the beginning a pleasant persistence, with hints of almond.
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