Trebbiano

Italy's most-planted white; mostly neutral, sometimes distilled.

Trebbiano is a family of white grapes — Trebbiano Toscano, Trebbiano d'Abruzzo, and others — collectively Italy's most-planted white. Most plantings produce neutral, high-acid base wine for blending or distillation; Trebbiano Toscano is the same grape as France's Ugni Blanc, the workhorse base of Cognac and Armagnac. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo, particularly the unrelated Bombino Bianco subset and Valentini's iconic bottlings, can produce surprisingly serious, age-worthy wines.