Centesimino is a red wine grape native to Italy where it is found in the Emilia Romagna region. In Romagna’s Faenza area Centesimino is called Sauvignon Rosso or Savignon Rosso.
Where grown: In Emilia-Romagna it is mainly planted in the countryside around Oriolo (south of Faenza). Centesimino wine can be labeled as an IGT with the Centesimino name in full view (or more often than not as Savignon Rosso, or Savignon), but also in other IGT wines such as Ravenna Rosso IGT, Emilia IGT, Forlì IGT, and Rubicone IGT.
The vine: Medium-small bunches, medium berries. It is an early-ripening variety, very vegetative but it produces very little.
Wine style: Red berries and sweet spices. Fresh acidity, lively tannins, light- to medium-bodied.
Bibliography
See Ian D’Agata, Native Wine Grapes of Italy (University of California Press, 2014).
Italian Wine Unplugged (Positive Press, 2017), p.167.