Vitovska or Vitouska, also known in Slovene as Vitovska Grganja or Garganja, is an Italian and

Slovene wine Slovenian wine is wine from Slovenia. Viticulture and winemaking has existed in this region since the time of the Celts and Illyrians tribes, long before the Romans would introduce winemaking to the lands of France, Spain and Germany. J. Robinso ...

grape A grape is a fruit, botanically a berry, of the deciduous woody vines of the flowering plant genus '' Vitis''. Grapes are a non- climacteric type of fruit, generally occurring in clusters. The cultivation of grapes began perhaps 8,000 years a ...

predominantly planted in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and the Karst Plateau in the Slovenian Littoral. The name ''vitovska'' is of Slovene origin, from '' Vitovlje'', and ''grganja'' is of Friulian origin, from ''gargànie (nere)''. The grape is now mostly found in the lower Isonzo and

Carso The Karst Plateau or the Karst region ( sl, Kras, it, Carso), also locally called Karst, is a karst plateau region extending across the border of southwestern Slovenia and northeastern Italy. It lies between the Vipava Valley, the low hills sur ...

regions of northeast

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. The grape produces a dry white wine.M. Ewing-Mulligan & E. McCarthy ''Italian Wines for Dummies'' pg 139 Hungry Minds 2001 Vitovska is a cross between

Prosecco Prosecco (; Italian: ) is an Italian DOC or DOCG white wine produced in a large area spanning nine provinces in the Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions, and named after the village of Prosecco which is in the province of Trieste, It ...

Tondo and

Malvasia Bianca Lunga Malvasia (, also known as Malvazia) is a group of wine grape varieties grown historically in the Mediterranean region, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands and the island of Madeira, but now grown in many of the winemaking regions of the world. I ...

. ''Vitouska'' is the progeny of ''Prosecco tondo'' and ''Malvasia bianca lunga'', Crespan, M. Crespan, G. Giannetto, S. Meneghetti, S. Costacurta, A., Vitis, Germany, 2007, VOL 46; N° 4, pages 192-195,

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