Typical Wines of Tivoli and surroundings

White Genazzano Doc

It's obtained from a combination of Malvasia di Candia, Bellone and Bombino grapes and other grapes. It's characterizeb by a colour from straw yellow to gold with attractive greenish highlights.
The wine is fruity, lively, fresh, harmonious, sometimes sweet, with greenish hues and fragrance more or less delicate fruity. Excellent with seafood, light appetizers and some preparations typical local cuisine, like the tasty "gnocchi tail." The joint production are: Genazzano, Olevano Romano, San Vito Romano and Cave.

Red Genazzano Doc

Produced with Sangiovese grapes, Cesanese (small portion) and other red grape variety grown here, wine is a lively, fresh, sometimes lovable, with a tonality of ruby red bright. It's characterized by a flavour with medium intensity and winy, fruit notes, fragrant, fresh, delicate and slightly sweet as well.
It's an excellent wine with all meals.
Its vineyards are found in Prenestini Mountain, in particular at Genazzano, Olevano Romano, San Vito Romano and Cave.

Wine grapes

Marino DOC

Produced with grapes from vineyards Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Trebbiano (Toscano, Yellow, Romagnolo, Soave), Malvasia del Lazio, other grape varieties (maximum 10% except Moscow), is a dry wine or sweet, mellow and distinctive, very balanced. It ranges from a straw yellow to deep gold color if the wine is made with grape skin.
It's a flavor vinous, delicate, with hints of fruit and flowers and a slight apple aftertaste. Some people regarded Marino DOC as a "copy" of the more famous Frascati DOC but in reality, thanks to the different climatic conditions, Marino DOC is a more vigorous wine with a bigger body and greater intensity than its nearby "cousin" Frascati.
Marino DOC is ideal with the more savory dishes of South Pontino and Roman cuisine, including artichokes.
Its vineyards are found at Marino and Castel Gandolfo.

Zagarolo DOC

Zagorolo DOC is a typical white wine of the Castelli Romani, produced with grapes from vineyards Malvasia Bianca di Candia, Trebbiano Toscano (green and yellow), Bellone and Bonvino (max 10%).
It's a wine-tasting soft and sweet, caractherized by a straw-yellow color. It's a flavor vinous, more or less strong, and delicate fragrance, with hints of 'golden' apple and lemon perfume.
Ideal with seafood in general but it is very flexible and goes with most food.
Its vineyards are found in two areas around the villages of Gallicano and Zagarolo.