The Italian Grape Name and Appellation Pronunciation Project was inspired by a desire to share the aural experience of Italian ampelography, vinography, and toponymy — in the voice of the winemakers and grapegrowers themselves.
Below you’ll find YouTube videos in alphabetical order (and I’ll continue to add more as the project expands). Thanks for listening to and speaking Italian grapes and appellations! :-)
AGLIANICO
AGLIANICO DEL VULTURE
CATARRATTO
CERASUOLO D’ABRUZZO
CIRÒ
CONEGLIANO
FALANGHINA
FREISA
GAGLIOPPO
GARGANEGA
GLERA
INZOLIA
LAGREIN
MAGLIOCCO
MALVASIA (TWO WAYS)
Tuscany
Friuli
MONTEPULCIANO
NEBBIOLO
NEGROAMARO
NERO D’AVOLA
NERELLO MASCALESE
PRIMITIVO
PROSECCO
SAGRANTINO
SALICE SALENTINO
SANGIOVESE GROSSO
SCHIOPPETINO
TAURASI
TEROLDEGO
VALDOBBIADENE
VITOVSKA
I’d like to hear Fiano, Montepulciano and Sangiovese pronounced correctly.
Arthur
shutupandmakewine.com
[...] I always thought “Aglianico” was pronounced “a-lee-YAN-ee-koh”. Apparently, I was off by a few phonemens… (above video is from Jeremy Parzen’s Italian Grape Name and Appellation Pronunciation Project) [...]
Bravo!! Grazie mille !
I know many of these producers personally and it would be interesting to hear the grape names interspersed in sentences of spoken dialect. I suspect you’d hear radical differences, as this project is based on the Italian pronounciation of grapes that are rarely discussed in Italian proper. Hearing Cantele pronounce ‘negroamaro’ will give you the Italian but talk to a producer in his 80′s, and he’ll be hard-pressed to find one that actualy speaks Italian, much less one that doesn’t pronounce his grape without drenching it in dialect
thanks, everyone, for the kind words of encouragement!
@Arthur Sangiovese is already there… and I have Montepulciano in the cue…
@Silvestro if you look at the individual posts (I’ll add links to each one on this page), you’ll see that I address some of the speakers dialectal inflections. If I’m not mistaken, you’re a filmmaker: I WOULD LOVE IT if you would capture some older folks on digital video and send me clips to post here! :-)
[...] Jeremy Parzan has the answer: his Italian Grape Name and Appellation Pronunciation Project. Parzan, who holds a doctorate in Italian and writes the blog Do Bianchi, has asked his favorite [...]
[...] Note: To listen to Nero d’Avola and other Italian grapes and appellations spoken by winemakers and grape growers, click here to go to the Do Bianchi Italian Grape Name and Appellation Pronunciation Project. [...]
awesome
So good!
Please continue
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Well, I don’t know, but I learned “Aglianico” as “all-ya-NEE-co”; similar to “Aleatico ” = “ah-lee-ah-TEE-co”.
[...] to hear Francesco de Franco pronounce the word “Gaglioppo”. From Jeremy Parzen’s Italian Grape Name and Appellation Project. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:LikeBe the first to like this post. This entry was posted in [...]
[...] has to be the case thanks to the Italian Grape Name and Appellation Pronunciation Project over at Do Bianchi. This is definitely one that is for [...]
[...] of Italian wines, it is essential for you to watch this training video before you go to VinItaly: http://dobianchi.com/selected-reading/italian-grape-name-pronunciation-project/ [...]
[...] Italiaanse druivenrassen uitspreekt? Jeremy Parzen van wine blog DoBianchi.com startte het Italian Grape Name Pronuncation Project. De eerst video in een reeks van vele werd ingesproken door Elisabetta Foradori, van wie ik onlangs [...]
[...] Here’s the link for previous entries in the Italian Grape Name & Appellation Pronunciation Project. [...]
[...] Vinitaly earlier this year, I asked Florian Gojer of the Gojer winery to pronounce Lagrein for the Italian Grape Name & Appellation Pronunciation Project. When I asked him to pronounce Schiava, he insisted on using the German name, noting that in [...]
Fun and educational, thank you. One tiny correction, the caption (on this page, not in the video) reads “VALDOBBIANDENE” with an extra ‘N’.
[...] (BTW, if you’re having trouble pronouncing Aglianico del Vulture, click here to hear my good friend and Aglianico del Vulture producer Sara Carbone say it for my came….) [...]
Babera is promounced Barbraor maybe not..
[...] check out Jeremy Parzen’s Italian Grape Pronunciation Project for a quick lesson in Italian grapes, including Vitovska, straight from the producers’ [...]
Thanks for the music of Italian wine language, especially Francesco De Franco doing “GAGLIOPPO” with piano accompanying!!