Costa d’Amalfi

The "Costa d'Amalfi" Protected Designation of Origin is reserved for the following types of wine: Red, red Passito, Rosato, White, white Passito and Spumante white. It is also possible to indicate sub-areas, limited to Ravello, Tramonti and Furore.

Grapes

All types of white "Costa d'Amalfi" wines are produced using grapes from vineyards composed of at least 40% Falanghina and/or Biancolella vines. Other white grapes suitable for cultivation in the province of Salerno may contribute to the remaining part. Reds and Rosato, on the other hand, are made with a minimum of 40% Piedirosso, together with Aglianico or Sciascinoso, which alone or together can account for 60% of the total.

Physicochemical and Organoleptic properties

The white wine (minimum total alcoholic strength by volume of 10% vol.) is straw-coloured, with a delicate and pleasant aroma and a full-bodied, dry and harmonious flavour. The passito variant (17% vol.) turns to golden, which becomes amber as it ages; the aroma is characteristic and fruity, the taste from dry to sweet. The Spumante (11.5% vol.) is straw yellow with greenish or golden reflections and a fine and persistent foam; the aroma is fragrant, with a delicate hint of yeast; on the palate it is savoury, pleasant and harmonious, from extrabrut to brut. The red wine (10.5% vol.) is ruby red, with a vinous aroma and a dry, medium-bodied, rightly tannic flavour. Passito (17% vol.), which as it ages becomes garnet, has an intense and pleasant aroma and a harmonious flavour, from dry to sweet. Finally, the Rosato (10.5% vol.) has a fruity aroma and a dry, fresh and delicate flavour.

Grape production area

The production area coincides with the territories of the municipalities that make up the "Costiera Amalfitana" area.

Specificity and historical notes

The presence of viticulture in the area of the Amalfi coast can be dated with certainty in the year 860 A.D. Many documents of the city of Amalfi, in fact, speak of this activity and praise the wines that derived from it.