🍇 Cesanese Comune

Cesanese Comune is a dark-skinned wine grape from Italy.

VIVC gives no parents for it.

Italy's National Register of Grapevine Varieties lists it under code 60, admitted on 25 May 1970. Its official synonym there is Cesanese. The register lists the variety as permitted in 1 DOCG, 6 DOC and 13 IGT wines, among them Cesanese del Piglio o Piglio, Castelli Romani, Cesanese di Olevano Romano o Olevano Romano, Cori, Roma, Tarquinia and Velletri. 1 clone of it is registered.

According to VIVC, it covered 477 ha in Italy (2000). Samples of the variety are kept in 7 collections. The variety is registered in the European catalogue of varieties.

Why it matters to you. VIVC lists 15 synonyms for it, among them Bombino Nero, Bonvino Nero and Cesanese di Affile, so the same grape can turn up under other names. If a grape is named on the label of an EU wine, it makes up at least 85% of that wine.

Cesanese del Piglio was the first Cesanese denomination to reach DOCG, and it is the largest of the three in Lazio. Its rules let Cesanese di Affile and Cesanese Comune together make at least 90% of the wine. The soils are dark, iron-rich volcanic clays at roughly 300-600 m. Piglio can be dry, off-dry or sweet, still, frizzante or spumante. The grape itself shows floral aromas, fine tannins and naturally high acidity.