DOCG
Campania's top tier is four names from the hills of Irpinia and Taburno: Taurasi and Aglianico del Taburno for reds, Fiano di Avellino and Greco di Tufo for whites.
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Campania IGT The Region-Wide Label for Campania's Wines, Explained
Campania IGT is the region-wide label for the wines of Campania, created in 2004. It runs from Vesuvius and the Naples coast to the hills of Irpinia and Benevento. Growers use it to bottle red, white and rosato with far more freedom than a DOC allows. Aglianico reds and Falanghina whites are the ones you will meet most.
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Decode the label
Where this label sits
Three levels of Italian wine law, read through Campania's own denominations.
DOC
The DOCs draw the region's places in detail. Vesuvio and its Lacryma Christi, Campi Flegrei, Costa d'Amalfi and the islands of Ischia and Capri sit by the sea. Falerno del Massico runs from the coast into the hills, and Irpinia and Sannio are inland.
IGT
Campania IGT is the widest frame of all: one label for the whole region. More local IGTs such as Beneventano and Pompeiano sit beside it. It is also the home of Aglianico and Falanghina bottled without a DOC's tighter rules.
You are hereCampania IGT does not contain Taurasi, Fiano di Avellino or Vesuvio. They keep their own zones and rulebooks. What the regional label offers is a way down, not a way in. A vineyard registered for a DOC or DOCG may release a wine as Campania IGT when it fits one of the IGT types. The choice is made wine by wine. That is how a Merlot or a rosato from Irpinia can share a label with a simple Falanghina.
What DOCG, DOC and IGT mean in Italian law is set out once, in Italian wine zones explained.
What is Campania IGT?
Campania has grown wine for longer than almost anywhere in Italy. The rulebook itself makes the point: the famous wines of ancient Rome, Falerno, Greco, Faustiniano and Caleno, were all made here. Pliny, Columella, Virgil and Cato wrote about its vines. The Romans called the place Campania Felix, the happy land, for the richness of its soil.
The modern label is much younger: Campania's region-wide IGT was approved on 19 October 2004. The idea is simple. A DOC or DOCG names a small place and fixes its grapes, yields and ageing. Campania IGT names the whole region and fixes very little. Grapes may come from any of the five provinces, the wine must be made in Campania, and that is close to the whole of it.
Producers use that freedom in three ways. Some bottle a straight Aglianico or Falanghina from vines outside any DOC line. Some make a Merlot, or a blend with it, and the regional label is where that wine goes. And some step a wine down on purpose: the rules let a vineyard registered for a DOC or DOCG release a given wine as Campania IGT instead. So the same estate can sell a Taurasi one year and a Campania IGT Aglianico from the same hill the next.
Campania IGT is not the only regional catch-all. Nine more local IGTs sit beside it, from Beneventano and Terre del Volturno to Pompeiano and Colli di Salerno. Wine-Searcher's figures put Beneventano ahead of the regional label in volume. The ground under all of them is volcanic more often than not. The rulebook credits those potassium-rich soils for the region's passito and liquoroso wines, made from grapes dried on the vine or on racks in the old way.
Common questions about Campania IGT
It means a wine made from grapes grown anywhere in the Campania region, under Italy's IGT tier. The rules fix the origin and a few minimums, and leave the grapes and style to the producer.
No. Campania has four DOCGs, fifteen DOCs and ten IGTs. Campania IGT is one of those ten, the only one that covers the whole region. Taurasi, Fiano di Avellino and Vesuvio each have their own zone and rulebook.
Nine: Aglianico, Coda di Volpe, Falanghina, Fiano, Greco, Moscato, Piedirosso, Primitivo and Sciascinoso. The named grape must make up at least 85% of the wine. Any other grape allowed in Campania can go into a plain red, white or rosato.
Not by law. IGT is a wider rule set, not a lower mark. The label covers Falanghina whites from about £14 at UK specialist merchants and serious reds from estates that also make Taurasi. So read the producer and the grape, not the tier.
At least 11.5% for a plain red, white or rosato, and at least 12% when the label names Aglianico, Piedirosso, Primitivo or Sciascinoso. A frizzante may be released at 11%.
It can be lightly fizzy: frizzante is allowed in red, white and rosato. It cannot be a full spumante under this label. Sweet passito is allowed in all three colours, and liquoroso in red and rosato.
For freedom. The label lets an estate blend Aglianico with Merlot, bottle a grape its DOC does not list, or release a wine young. The rules also let a DOC or DOCG vineyard step a wine down to Campania IGT, a choice made wine by wine.
The territory
The whole region, and what sits inside it
Everything drawn here can also, or instead, carry the Campania IGT label.
33Denominations share it
297Campania wines live
The territory is the administrative region, nothing tighter. Every stricter denomination on this map is drawn inside that same line, which is why a grower in one of them can bottle under either name in the same harvest.
None of these zones belongs to Campania IGT. They sit in the same territory and answer to their own rulebooks.
The parent region
Campania
From Vesuvian ash to Avellino's Tufo hills, Campania pours four DOCGs of Italy's deepest wine memory: Aglianico for thunder, Fiano and Greco for stone-cool light.
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What’s bottled under Campania IGT
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A taste of Campania IGT
Editorially selected bottlings. 12 from 28.
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Feudi di San Gregorio Dubl Brut Edition II
Campania
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£24.00
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Mastro Aglianico Campania IGT
Campania
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£14.95
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Campania IGT Merlot Pàtrimo Feudi di San Gregorio
Campania
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£79.83
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Campania IGT Core Rosa Montevetrano
Campania
1 retailer
£21.90
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Campania IGT Rosso È Iss Tenuta San Francesco
Campania
1 retailer
£44.90
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Campania IGT Aglianico I Viaggiatori Joaquin
Campania
1 retailer
£47.00
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Terre Stregate Caracara Falanghina
Campania
1 retailer
£57.50
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Campania IGT Bianco Dall'Isola Joaquin
Campania
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£59.90
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Feudi di San Gregorio, San Greg, Campania Rosato
Campania
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£18.50
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Nativ Rue dell'inchiostro Aglianico IGT
Campania
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£14.60
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Vinosia Indicazione Geografica Tipica Piedirosso
Campania
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£11.30
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Campania IGT Falanghina 'Centenus'
Campania
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£13.90
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