Piccola nera

Piccola nera is red Italian and Slovenian wine grape variety that is grown in the province of Trieste within the Friuli-Venezia Giulia wine region and across the border in neighboring Slovenia where ampelographers believe that the grape originated. Piccola nera, whose name means "little black", tends to produce to light bodied red and rosé wines that are meant to be consumed young. It is a permitted variety in the Denominazione di origine controllata (DOC) wines of Carso where it is usually blended with Terrano and in Venezia Indicazione geografica tipica IGT classification where the grape can be used to make varietal wines.

Ampelographers believe that Piccola nera originated in the border region between Italy and Slovenia in what is now the province of Trieste in Italy and the Obalno-kraška Statistical Region of Slovenia. In Italian, the name Piccola nera can be translated to mean "little black" which describes the small black skin berries of the grape vine.

Piccola nera is a late ripening grape variety that can be very vigorous and high yielding if not kept in check by winter pruning and later green harvesting during the growing season. In the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol wine region of Italy, the grape is sometimes confused for the German/Italian wine grape Trollinger.

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