Adopted by the IDA Board of Directors, Nov. 12, 2002. This Definition is also used by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). Many state education codes, including New Jersey, Ohio and Utah, have adopted this definition.
Italy's most well-known and widely planted red grape variety, Sangiovese, is a thin-skinned, finicky grape that tends to linger longer on the vine, taking its sweet time to ripen and mature.
Central Italy is quite a bit simpler than either the north or the south when it comes to grape varieties, especially red grape varieties. Without a doubt, the primary red grape of central Italy is Sangiovese.Sangiovese is the most planted grape variety in Italy overall, red or white. While it is grown in many regions of Italy, most is here in central Italy. The map on the left below shows which regions focus most on Sangiovese.s you can see, the majority of Italyâs Sangiovese is in Tuscany, where two thirds of the vineyards are planted with Sangiovese. Much of the rest is in the neighboring regions of Emilia Romagna, Marche, and Umbria, along with Puglia in the south. The other principal grape variety of central Italy is Montepulciano.