Wine region
Calabria
Calabria is a wine region in Italy, home to 34 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines.
On this page
Calabria's 34 wineries make roughly equal red and white wine; Greco is the most common single-grape bottling; wines carry DOC, IGT designation.
About the Calabria region
- Location
- Calabrian wine (Italian: vino calabrese) is Italian wine from the Calabria region of southern Italy.
- Climate
- Calabria is located at the "toe" of the Italian Peninsula and is characterized by its Mediterranean climate.
- Soils
- Principal soil conditions listed for Calabria include clay, limestone and sandy soils, with volcanic soils in some areas.
Region facts sourced from Wikipedia contributors, "Calabrian wine", Wikipedia, revision 1345118140, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).
Most common single-grape wines
When Calabria wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:
- Greco
- 1 single-grape wine
Wine profile
Calabria is roughly split, making substantial red (50%) and white (32%) wine.
137 distinct Calabria wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.
- Red68 · 50%
- White44 · 32%
- Rose25 · 18%
Types: Sparkling, Still.
Representative Calabria wines
Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.
- 'Avita — Classico Superiore Riserva
- Tenuta Del Conte — Ciro
- Librandi — Asylia Rosso
- Cantine Benvenuto — Mare Bianco
- Tenuta Del Conte — Ciro
- Ceraudo — Petraro
- Fattoria San Francesco — Ciro
- Statti — Batasarro
Sub-regions & appellations
Within Calabria, these appellationsA legally-defined smaller growing area within a wine region, often with its own grapes and rules. are smaller growing areas, often with their own character:
- Ciro
- Val di Neto
- Scavigna
- Terre di Cosenza
- Melissa
- Lamezia
- Savuto
Quality designations
Wines here span quality tiers from everyday IGT to the strictly-controlled DOC — you'll find both accessible and prestige bottles.
- DOCAn Italian controlled-origin designation — sets the region, grapes and rules a wine must follow.
- IGTA looser Italian designation for regional wines with more freedom than DOC — often good value.
Italy wine designations
- DOC
- DOC is an Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected designation of origin (DOP) status.
- DOCG
- DOCG is an Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected designation of origin (DOP) status.
- IGP
- IGP denotes the EU protected geographical indication scheme for food and wine, linking a product’s quality, reputation or other characteristic to geographical origin.
- IGT
- IGT is the Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected geographical indication (IGP) status.
- PDO
- PDO is the European Union protected designation of origin category.
Understanding the wine data
- Designation
- The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
Explore Calabria
Ways to browse Calabria — each count is the size of that specific collection (a subset of the 137 wines tracked above):
- Red Calabria (32)
- White Calabria (27)
How to choose a good Calabria wine
For everyday drinking, IGT bottles are the accessible choice; for something special, DOC signals the region's most tightly-controlled, prestige wines.
FAQs
- Where is Calabria?
- Calabrian wine ( Italian : vino calabrese ) is Italian wine from the Calabria region of southern Italy .
- What do the designation terms on Calabria wines mean?
- DOC: DOC is an Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected designation of origin (DOP) status. IGT: IGT is the Italian traditional term used to designate wine with protected geographical indication (IGP) status. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
- How are wineries and producers selected for Calabria?
- Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
- How are representative Calabria wines selected?
- Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
- How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Calabria?
- The current regional catalogue contains 137 linked wines from 34 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.
Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.