Vernaccia Nera is an aromatic red wine grape native to Italy where it is found–albeit infrequently–in Umbria and Le Marche. It’s best known wine, the Vernaccia di Serrapetrona DOCG, is a bottle fermented sparkling red made from at least 40% air-dried grapes. Still passito wines made from air-dried grapes are also made under the Serrapetrona DOC. 

Typical flavours: Violet, rose petal, black cherry.