This is what good wine from the Verdeca grape tastes like

Verdeca grows in the heel of the Italian boot, in the Puglia region, where it produces relatively neutral white wines - very suitable to accompany grilled small fish. Verdeca originally comes from Greece, where it is called Lagorthi.

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Verdeca is slowly disappearing. A good thirty years ago there was still around 8,000 hectares planted with this grape; today you find no more than 2,000 hectares in Italy. Outside Puglia, a little Verdeca is planted in Basilicata and Campania.

Verdeca turns out to be genetically identical to the Greek Lagorthi, which grows mainly in the Peloponnese and here and there on the Ionian islands. But Lagorthi, too, is extremely rare.

Finally, Verdeca turns out to have produced the - also Croatian - Plavina grape together with the Croatian Tribidrag. How exactly that works, well, we don't fully understand it ourselves either.

We currently have one wine made from the Verdeca grape in our range. You can view our Verdeca wine here.