wine made in ancient Carthage. The modern Italian name for this wine, passito, echoes this ancient word, as does the French word used to describe the...

wines are produced at a variety of sweetness levels from dry to sweet passito dessert wines. Grapes destined for DOC wine production must be harvested...

made, called Moscato Passito di Pantelleria. Such wines were described by the Romans. Northern Italy is home to a number of 'passito' wines, where the grapes...

Sagrantino Passito, a sweet, dessert red wine. For a long time, the Sagrantino grape variety was only used for making Montefalco Sagrantino Passito, the traditional...

Albana di Romagna (Bianco as secco or asciutto, amabile, dolce, passito and passito riserva), produced in the provinces of Bologna, Forlì-Cesena and...

normale, Frizzante and Passito; Rosato in the styles normale, Frizzante and Novello; Rosso in the styles normale, Frizzante, Passito and Novello) produced...

minimum percentage of other white grapes and may be still, sparkling or passito. The still version has an acidic profile, which is typical of these grapes...

Tears of wine show clearly in the shadow of this glass of 13.5% Caluso Passito dessert wine...

is most commonly associated with sweet dessert wines often made in the passito style. Historically planted in poor and infertile vineyards, the grape...

the still wine, Verdicchio is permitted in the blend of the spumante and passito wines as well. Colli Martani DOC (Umbria) – primarily Trebbiano and/or...

dessert wine. Marsala is sometimes discussed with another Sicilian wine, Passito di Pantelleria (Pantelleria Island's raisin wine). Marsala wine is frequently...

within the DOC zone a sparkling spumante style is permitted, as is the passito Recioto style, that in 1998 was granted its own DOCG designation for grapes...

grown mostly in northern Italy where it is most often used to produce passito style dessert wines. The grape is also planted in Croatia where it is known...

excess fruit from the local farmers and turns it into white, red, rosé, and passito wine (label “Chã”); grape (grappa), apple, quince, and peach spirits (label...

southern area of Dalmatia, Croatia. It is made using dried wine grapes in the passito method. Good quality Prošek is usually much more expensive by volume than...

It is one of the principal winemaking communes of the Moscato d'Asti, Passito di Moscato, and Brachetto d'Acqui. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni...

only DOC producing wine from the Bosco, Albarola and Vermentino grapes. A passito and liquoroso style made from the same grapes can also be produced under...

(communion wine). Historically Sagrantino was used primarily for making sweet passito wines, partially drying the grapes to yield a thick, syrupy wine with raisin...

(labeled such to differentiate it from the Tuscan wine). It is made in a passito style from grapes dried in the sun after harvest. Santorini also produces...

vine—a method that produced passum and the modern Italian equivalent, passito. Stopping the fermentation also enhanced a wine's potential sweetness....

Controllata e Garantita, the Aleatico dell’Elba Passito DOCG dedicated to the production of passito-style wines made from Aleatico. Under Italy's appellation...

e garantita (DOCG) of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Ramandolo and the two passito wine DOCGs of Colli Orientali del Friuli Picolit and Colli Orientali del...

production of the Marzemino wine (called Colli di Conegliano Refrontolo Passito DOCG). Since July 7, 2019, Refrontolo's hills have been inscribed as an...

apricots, peaches, pears and hops. Some producers make a late harvest passito Arneis. Arneis is also known under the synonyms Bianchetta, Bianchetta...

and is made in this antique fashion. Passito – the modern Italian wine made in this fashion. A notable passito comes from Pantelleria, an island in the...

these grapes. While Tuscany is not the only Italian region to make the passito dessert wine Vin Santo (meaning "holy wine"), the Tuscan versions of the...

day Sicilians eat anise, hard biscuits dipped into Moscato, Malvasia or Passito. l'Estate di San Martino (Saint Martin's Summer) is the traditional reference...

DOCG covers four styles of Albana di Romagna: secco, amabile, dolce, and passito, with varying degrees of alcohol (11.5–15.5%). A sparkling version, Romagna...

the island of Pantelleria between Sicily and Tunisia, where it makes a passito style dessert wine under the name of "Zibibbo"), the grape lags far behind...

water is removed as the grapes shrivel into raisins. This method (known as passito) produces more concentrated grapes that still maintain the acid balance...