It is a typical grapevine of the Quiliano area, nearby Savona. Originally from Spain (where it was known as Alicante), it arrived in Liguria in the eighteenth century, brought by a few families who had business relations with the Iberian country. Granaccia has a deep red color, with violet glares as young, that becomes bright ruby red with garnet glares after a few years. Its aroma is vinous in his youth and then takes hints of forest fruits, resins, iris and magnolia with time, while in the mouth it is dry and rough in its first period of life, to become more warm, soft and open with aging. It is relative of French Grenache and Sardinian Cannonau.
