The Greeks called Italy, Oenotria, or “land of wine.”
Because in Italy, wine is food.
It’s unthinkable to sit down to a meal without it.
Italy has been making wine for 3,500 years.
Spanning the Alps to North Africa and surrounded by four different seas, Italy is ideally suited to wine growing.
With 80% of the country mountains or hills and surrounded by four different seas, the sun-bathed mountains by day and cool Mediterranean breezes at night allow nearly every grape to thrive somewhere. Italy has over 900,000 registered vineyards, and plants some 1,000 different varieties of grapes.