All About SCHIOPPETTINO (Including How to Pronounce It!)

What’s red, juicy, low in tannins, hard to find, and just as hard to pronounce? If you guessed Schiopppettino then you guessed correctly! This red wine grape from North Eastern Italy is grown rarely outside of its native region, and today we’ll explore why, as well as give you a guide to make pronounciation easier! Learn with us about the unique flavors found in Schioppettino, too, and why this might just be one of the best wines you are missing out on.

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can you pronounce this even more do you know what it is well our first hint is that it’s from Northeastern Italy in fi venetsia Julia and our second hint is that it’s a rare indigenous grape this is scatino but don’t worry we’ll go over how to pronounce it later hi there I’m Jacqueline F where we go around the world searching out wild and scarce wines to bring to Consumers and businesses alike throughout the US and these wines can be like get ready for it the red wine scatino Shino Scooby-Doo Scooby-Doo sh shipo shoooo all right so the word may look scary but let’s take it one bit at a time so first off the S CI at the beginning doesn’t make a sh sound as many of us Americans might intuitively think instead it makes a SK sound and once you get past that the patino follows pretty easily so say it with me nowo patino once you get the skio sound at the beginning that is kind of like a brusa type sound it is actually pretty easy one theory is that this name can actually come from the word scopare or burst in Italian and the local frean dialect and this can be thought of as because how the berries will pop and they’re so juicy and ripe when you taste them so now on to the wine that comes from the scatino grape it’s a red wine that we just love and a lot of people can miss out on because it’s not your typical red wine it has fantastic fun flavors and Aromas of black pepper and tart red berries this pepper flavor actually comes from a compound known as rotundone which is what can give s the same peppery notes scatino actually has one of the highest levels of this compound found amongst red grapes and in addition to these peppery notes scatino is also low in tannins making it a great halfway point for white and red wine drinkers white wine drinkers find it low in tannin and high acidity and more approachable and red wine drinkers can find it still has the structure and red berry flavors and pepper flavors to satisfy them but why is this fabulous grape not more well-known well for starters maybe it’s because of the difficult name but also maybe because it once actually was illegal to plant in the 1970s local governments in Frei tried to eradicate the grape but thankfully it was saved by a coalition of local farmers but that is a story for another day so subscribe and hit the notification Bell to find out when we post that tale this grape is also a little difficult to grow as large heavy yet thin-skinned and juicy bunches of grapes are joined together by Thin easily snapped stems on the vine it is also late ripening which can mean that storms during flowering or Autumn Mists later in the season can cause damage to Future grapes or current grapes with mildew on the flip side it can actually be insanely productive overly so in some cases and a good farmer will know how and when to drop fruit in order to produce good quality grapes rather than the natural over abundant quantity that the vine is capable of producing because of the patience it takes to properly grow a good scatino outside of its native fi it is not really found but there are producers in fi that know the vine well and are capable of properly managing it with tender loving care these are wineries like the three generation women-led viena petrusa and talking about Venia petrusa and the peppery red buried goodness of scatino if that’s got you thirsty you can head over to ver vote.com to find their four scatinos that show the range and versatility of this fun grape an uned version a classic version and a Reserva lastly there’s also a Pito sweet dessert wine made from scatino I’ll post the links down below to these scatino Wines in our Vero shop for you to taste for yourself and whether you’re a wine lover like me or you’re buying for a business or distributor we can help get these Wines in your hands in the mean metime in the future video we will be tasting and comparing these three scatinos so again subscribe below to know when that posts and sign up for our newsletter on vero.com to get other notifications of future content too so thank you for joining me today if you learned something leave a like and head over to vero.com in the meantime I’ll see you in the next video which could be this one here about scatino producer viena petrusa see you over there [Music]