🍇 Vernaccia Nera

Vernaccia Nera is a dark-skinned wine and table grape from Italy.

VIVC gives no parents for it.

Italy's National Register of Grapevine Varieties lists it under code 262, admitted on 25 May 1970. Its official synonym there is Vernaccia. The register lists the variety as permitted in 1 DOCG, 5 DOC and 7 IGT wines, among them Vernaccia di Serrapetrona, Colli Maceratesi, Colli Martani, I Terreni di Sanseverino, San Ginesio and Serrapetrona. 1 clone of it is registered.

According to VIVC, it covered 394 ha in Italy (1990). 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 17 synonyms for it, among them Carnaccia, Morone and Uva Principe, 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.

Red sparkling wine has been made in Serrapetrona since the 15th century, and Vernaccia Nera is its backbone. Today it carries the Vernaccia di Serrapetrona DOCG, from the province of Macerata in Marche, in dry and sweet versions. The method is unusual: three fermentations, with partly dried grapes added to the base wine. The appellation is tiny, only about 9 ha in 2021.