12 Wine Grapes Worth Discovering<br />Famoso di Cesena According to Ian D’Agata’s superb book "Native Wine Grapes of Italy," the famoso di Cesena grape, long grown<br />in the Emilia-Romagna section of Italy, was considered extinct when, in 2000, two rows of old vines were discovered.<br />Encruzado This rare grape accounts for some of the best white wines from the Dão region of northern Portugal, a country far better known for reds.<br />Vespaiolo The only wines I’ve had from this white grape from the Veneto region of Italy come from the producer Contrà Soarda,<br />but I have been enchanted every time, whether in its young, fresh Breganze version or the Vignasilan version, which receives longer aging at the winery.<br />Blatterle According to "Wine Grapes" by Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding<br />and José Vouillamoz, this white grape, from Alto Adige in the northeast of Italy where it meets Austria and Switzerland, is almost extinct.<br />Carricante I love this white grape from the Mount Etna region of Sicily, an area far better known for its reds.<br />Limniona Like so many other rare grapes, limniona, indigenous to the Thessaly region of central Greece, may<br />have disappeared if not for the efforts of growers like Christos Zafeirakis, who helped resurrect it.
