Bassano in Teverina is in the area of production of Colli Cimini Wine IGT - Protected Geographical Indication which include the province of Viterbo north of Rome.
Wines can be produced using different grapes such as Aleatico, Ansonica, Bellone, Bombino Bianco, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cesanese comune, Cesanese di Affile, Chardonnay, Ciliegiolo, Grechetto, Grechetto Rosso, Malvasia di Candia, Malvasia del Lazio, Manzoni Bianco, Merlot, Montepulciano, Moscato Bianco, Moscato di Terracina, Nero Buono, Passerina, Petit Verdot, Semillon, Trebbiano di Soave, Trebbiano Giallo, Trebbiano Toscano, Fiano, Vermentino and Syrah.
The Cimini Hills have the distinction of being of medium height and having volcanic soil. Here are cultivated mainly vines from Lazio that produce typical and unmistakable wines.
Already in 1883, in a survey on agriculture are listed the cultivation of white grapes Bello, Greco, Moscatello, Petino, Procanico, Romanesco and Rossetto and red grapes Aleatico, Cannaiola, Porcina and Prugnolo.
The cultivation of grapes in northern Lazio began with the Etruscans and is first documented in a fourth-century BC tomb in the necropolis of Molesino.
You can see a Faliscan 'stamnos' with red figures representing Dionysus and Oinopion, i.e. a rounded vase with two handles, with which they brought the wine to serve to the guests at the table with a long bronze ladle.
Some writings of Pliny describe with greater detail the cultivation of grapes and production of wine that the Romans stimulated and developed.
After the Middle Ages, before the abbeys and then the Papal States, wine production resumed and was further promoted.
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