Rondinella

Rondinella is an Italian red-wine grape variety that most commonly appears in the blended wines of Valpolicella and Bardolino.

To learn more about this grape – read on.  To find wines made with this grape, scroll down to the bottom.

Rarely grown outside the Veneto region, its key attribute is its prolific yields.  It is primarily used to add herbal flavours to Corvina-based wines and to flesh out the blend.

Corvina shares more than just traditional blending practices with Rondinella, as DNA profiling in the early 21st Century established it as a parent variety to Rondinella.  Like its parent, it has thick skin that is resistant to rot and well suited to the appassimento method of drying grapes.  Consequently, it is often used in Recioto and Amarone blends.