Collection: Grechetto

Grechetto is a white grape variety from central Italy, where it is particularly at home in Umbria. Here it has been cultivated all the way back to the Middle Ages, and it thrives especially well around the town of Todi. You will also find it further south in Lazio. Despite the name's similarity to 'Greek', Grechetto is genetically a variety of its own, with no kinship to the Greek grapes.

As a vine, Grechetto is a variety with moderate vigour and a steady performance. It ripens mid-season and has reasonable resistance to disease in its native areas, where climate and terroir suit it well. The clusters are medium-sized with correspondingly medium-sized berries.

In the glass, Grechetto typically gives dry white wines with a medium body and a moderate acidity. These are wines that often serve as part of the classic blends of central Italy's white wines, but the grape can also stand alone as a pure varietal. That gives you two ways into the variety: on the one hand the more composite regional white wines, on the other the wines where Grechetto is allowed to show its own expression.

At Copenhagen Wine we carry Grechetto from Italy, and here Umbria is the natural focal point. It is precisely in Umbria that the grape has its deepest roots, and it is from here that the wines we have in our range come. If you want to get to know a lesser-known but characterful Italian white grape, Grechetto is a good place to begin. It offers a restrained, well-balanced style that suits a wide selection of light dishes, and that gives you an honest impression of central Italy's white wine tradition.