Similarly, Veneto's vast output (the region made over one billion liters of wine in 2021) of Prosecco, Soave, Valpolicella and varietal Pinot Grigio does little to boost its reputation as a fine wine region, and yet it produces one of the world's richest, finest wines: Amarone della Valpolicella. Some are famous because they are produced in large volumes and can be found all over the world, others because of their consistently high quality. Italy's wine regionsĮach region has its flagship wine styles.
The most significant, when both quality and quantity are taken into consideration, are Tuscany, Piedmont and Veneto. Italy is divided into 20 administrative regions (see right), all of which produce wine, and all of which contain several wine regions. The Italian government's system of wine classification and labeling uses a four-tier quality hierarchy made up of more than 500 DOCG, DOC/DOP and IGT titles. Managing and marketing such a vast wine portfolio is no easy task, particularly in today's highly competitive wine market. It is rivaled in this regard only by France and Spain, and in 2018 the country produced roughly 19 percent of the world's wines. Famous for its bewildering diversity of both grape varieties and wine styles, Italy is also significant for the sheer volume of wine it produces: just over 5.6 billion liters (around 1.5 billion US gallons) in 2018, from 695,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) of vineyards. The home of Chianti, Barolo, Prosecco, Valpolicella, Soave, Orvieto, Etna, Italy has a rich and diverse wine heritage dating back more than four thousand years.
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