Campania was condidered by the ancient Romans the wine region. Records show that wine making has been going on in this region since the 13th century B.C. Today, the annual wine production of 2,500,000 hectolitres (ninth) include 1 percent or 25,000 hectolitres DOC (sixteenth), about two-thirds of which is white wine.
The DOC Wines = Denominazione di Origine Controllata, or Original Location Certified
The wine is classified in three categories:
Vini da Tavola or Table Wines. They are split into two sub-categories:
Vino da tavola (VTD) or Table Wine, and
Vino da tavola con indicazione geografica tipica (IGT) or Table wine from typical geographic area
Vini di qualitá prodotti in regione determinata (VQPRD) or Quality wines produced in a defined region.
They are divided into:
Vino a denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) or Original location certified, and
Vino a denominazione di origine controllata e garantita (DOCG) or Original location certified and guaranteed
Vini speciali or Specialty wines, including aromatized and liquorous wines.
With the exclusion of the specialty wines that represents a niche product, the Italian wines are qualified in ascending value from VDT (table wines) to DOCG (original location certified and guaranteed wine).
The following list is about the names of wines produced in Campania
DOC AREAS
Aglianico del Taburno or Taburno Red Dry Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG, Reserve Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG
Capri R-White Dry
Castel San Lorenzo (5 types) Rosso Red Dry, Rosato Pink Dry, Aglianico Red Dry, Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG
Cilento (4 types) Rosso Red Dry, Rosato Pink Dry, Bianco White Dry, Aglianico Red Dry, Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG
Falerno del Massico (3 types) Rosso Red Dry, Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG, Reserve Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG, Bianco White Dry, Primitivo Red Dry, Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG
Fiano di Avellino White Dry
Greco di Tufo White Dry
Ischia R-White Dry, also (W) Sp
Solopaca R-White Dry
Taurazi Red Dry, Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG, Reserve Ageing, as required by DOC or DOCG
Vesuvio R-White Dry, Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio R-P-White Dry, also Sp, Liquoroso W-Ft-Sw/Dr
Aglianico del Sannio
Barbera
Gragnano
Lettere
Per'e Palummo
Piedirosso
Ravello
Asprinio Asprino
Biancolella
Falanghina
Forastera
Plinius
Ravello
Kalimera
Lacrimarosa