Cococciola is a white Italian wine

Italian wine

Italian wine is wine produced in Italy, a country which is home to some of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world. Italy is the world's largest wine producer, responsible for approximately one-fifth of world wine production in 2005. Italian wine is exported largely around the world and has...

 grape variety that is was one of the few Italian grape varieties to have expanded in plantings in the late 20th century when measures to combat Europe's wine lake

Wine lake

The wine lake refers to the continuing supply surplus of wine produced in the European Union. A major contributor to that glut is the Languedoc-Roussillon, which produces over one-third of the grapes grown in France. In 2007 it was reported that for the previous several vintages, European...

 and the general decline of viticulture saw the numbers of many varieties decline. Today Cococciola is a permitted variety in the Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Denominazione di origine controllata

Denominazione di Origine Controllata

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(DOC) from the Abruzzo

Abruzzo

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 region of central Italy

Italy

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Synonyms

Various synonyms have been used to describe Cococciola and its wines including Cacciola, Cacciuolo and Cociumella.