Reading labels or literature about wine can be confusing with the myriad of terms. The following is a list of common Italian terms found on labels or in literature.

Abboccato - Delicately sweet
Alcool - Alcohol, usually stated by % of volume
Amabile - Semisweet
Annata - Vintage year
Azienda agricola or Azienda agraria or Azienda vitivinicola - Farm or estate which may not purchase more than half the grapes for wine sold under its labels

Bianco - White
Botte - Cask or barrel
Bottigila - Bottle
Brut - Dry

Cantina - Cellars or winery
Cantina sociale - Cooperative winery
Casa vinicola or Azienda vinicola - Wine house or merchant (commerciante) whose bottlings come mainly from purchased grapes or wines
Cascina - Farmhouse, often used for estate
Cerasuolo - Cherry-hued rosé
Chiaretto - Deep rosé
Classico - The historic center of a DOC zone
Consorzio - Consortium of producers

Dolce - Sweet.

Enoteca - Wine library, public or commercial
Etichetta - Label

Fattoria - Farm or estate

Fermentazione naturale - Natural Fermentation in bubbly wine
Frizzante or Frizzantino - Fizzy or faintly fizzy

Imbottigliata - Bottled (all'origine implies at the source)
Invecchiato - Aged

Liquoroso - Strong wine, often fortified with distilled alcohol, though sometimes strength is natural

Masseria - Farm or estate
Metodo Charmat - Sparkling wine by the sealed tank method
Metodo classico or tradizionale - Terms for sparkling wine made by the bottle fermentation method, classico or tradizionale replacing champenois or champenoise, which can no longer be used in Italy

Passito or Passita - Partially dried grapes and the strong, usually sweet wines made from them
Podere - Small farm or estate
Produttore - Producer

Recioto -Wine made from partly dried grapes, often sweet and strong
Riserva - Reserve, for DOC or DOCG wine aged a specified time
Rosato - Rosé
Rosso - Red

Secco - Dry
Semisecco - Medium sweet, usually in sparkling wine
Spumante - Sparkling wine, dry or sweet
Stravecchio - very old, applies to the longest aged Marsala and to some spirits
Superiore - In DOC wines denotes higher level of alcohol or aging or special geographical origin

Tenuta - Farm or estate

Uva - Grape

Vecchio - Old, to describe aged DOC wines
Vendemmia - Harvest or vintage
Vigna or vigneto - Vineyard
Vignaiolo/Viticoltore - Terms for grape grower
Vino da tavola - Table wine, applies loosely to most non-DOCs
Vino novello - New wine, usually red, that must be bottled within the year of harvest
Vitigno - Vine or grape variety
Vivace - Lively, as in lightly bubbly wines