Ormeasco

Ormeasco
History
Ormeasco is a red grape grown in the Liguria region of northern Italy since the Fourteenth Century. It is the Liguarian version of Dolchetto that grows in neighboring Piedmont. Locals debate which makes better wines.

[Ormeasco]
Popular in Italy, where its produces dark red wines that are filled with black fruit aromas and flavour, sometimes with a shadow of anise. Can be touch austere, sometimes light and fruity.

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In the production of Ligurian wines - mainly made of white wines and grapes - are distinguished three red grapes and from which are produced interesting wines: Rossese, Ormeasco - name with which is called Dolcetto - and Ciliegiolo.

See also: Grape, Italy, Region, Wine, Red