Abboccato - Medium-sweet and full bodied

Amabile - Medium-sweet

Annata - Vintage

Azienda (or Casa) agricola - An estate that uses its own grapes in production of its wines

Azienda (or Casa) vinicola - A producer who buys in and vinifies, usually a large scale operation

Azienda (or Casa) vitivinicola - An estate that grows vines, buys in grapes and makes wines

Bianco - White

Botte - Cask

Bottiglia - Bottle

Cantina Sociale - Co-operative cellar

Cascina - Farmhouse (estate)

Cerasuolo - Cherry red

Chiaretto - Deep rose'

Classico - The origonal centre of a DOC region, making the most typical wines.

Consorzio - Producers' trade association, whose members' wines are identified by a neck-label

Dolce - Sweet

Fattoria - Estate

Fermentazione naturale - Natural sparkle in a wine

Frizzante - Slighty sparkling

Imbottigliato all'origine - Estate bottled

Invecchiato - Aged

Liquoroso - Strong, often fortified, wine

Maso, Masseria - Estate

Metodo charmat - Tank method sparkling wine

Metodo classico, metodo tradizonale - Traditional method, bottle-fermented sparkling wine

Passito, Passita - A generally strong, sweet wine made from part-dried grapes

Podere - A small estate

Produttore - Producer

Recioto - Similar to Passito, made with part-dried grapes

Riserva - Reserve, for DOC wines, one that has been aged in cask and / or bottle for a particular length of time

Rosato - Rose

Rosso - red

Secco - Dry

Semisecco - Medium-dry

Spumante - Sparkling wine made by any method

Stravecchio - Very old, particularly of marsala and spirits

Tenuta - Estate

Uva - Grape

Vecchio - Old; with DOC wines there are restrictions as to how this may be used.

Vendemmia - Vintage

Vigna, Vigneto - Vineyard

Vigniaiolo, Viticoltore - Grower

Vino Novello - New wine, bottled less than a year

Vitigno - Grape variety

Vivace - Slightly Sparkling.