I came across this unique wine at last year's Wine Fair. This wine from the volcanic island of Ischia is made from a collection of local grapes: Biancolella, Forastera, Uva Rilla, San Lunardo and Coglionara. All apart from the last are recorded in the VIVC database that I turn to for reference, but other than that, little information seem to be available about these grapes. There were short articles on the first two in Wikipedia, but the Forastera one refers to a Spanish grape (either Mantuo or Doradilla) rather than the Italian one (3 different entries on Forestera exist in VIVC). Uva Rilla and San Lunardo are known by different Prime Names (Arilla and S. Lunardo respectively) but no information was available for Coglionara. As I have not met any of these before, that's another five for my collection!!
PS The wine itself will require another tidbit.
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