Food and Wine of Cinque Terre Liguria Italy - Travel Guide & Information

This description page of Cinque Terre in the Italian Region of Liguria Italy, will guide you in planning your trip to Italy and help you to find useful travel information about the Food & Wine of this Italian Region.

Food (Cibo)

Besides all the seafood and the fresh fruits of the sea, the acciughe (anchovies), are the local main fish specialty. Not only dried and salt conserved, the anchovies are perfect to eat fresh, caught using special fishing lights to attract the fish, called Lampara. The Tegame alla Vernazza is the most typical main course with anchovies, potatoes, tomatoes, white wine, olive oil and herbs.

Along the omnipresent pasta dishes: the Pansotti are a kind of ravioli with spinach and ricotta and served with walnut sauce and of course the spaghetti or trofie with the pesto, the famous ligurian basil sauce.

An old simple dish is the Torta Pasqualina (Pasqualina Cake): a puff pastry cake made with borage or other vegetables, as wild herbs, chard, artichokes or spinach enriched with ricotta cheese and eggs.

Wine (Vino)

The terraced vineyards, which in the months of September are full of people using headbands to carry baskets overflowing with golden grapes, produce famous Doc wines.

To enjoy this delicious ligurian cuisine accompany the meal with the wine from the land vineyards called Cinque Terre, a fresh white wine perfect for the seafood. From the same grapes, the famous raising wine Sciacchettrà: this high gradation white wine with an intense fragrance the combines apricot, acacia honey and raisin, and perfect as a cool aperitif or to accompany the dessert. The Sciacchetrà was so precious at one time that it was guarded jealously: it was only used to cure the sick or for a wedding or the birth of a child.

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