What you need to know about sangiovese, Italy's biggest-selling grape
Sangiovese is Italy's numero uno grape.
Forget about across-the-board quality, or mystique, or any other subjective, debatable factor you can think of, and just focus on volume. No other grape variety, red or white _ and there are hundreds of Italian grape varieties _ is grown or made into more wine in Italy than sangiovese, the red grape whose name translates to the "blood of Jove." You may remember him as Jupiter, the Romans' numero uno god (pardon me, my Latin is rusty) and their answer to the Greeks' Zeus.
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