{{Short description|Variety of grape}}
'''Asprinio bianco''' is a white Italian wine grape variety grown primarily in southwest Italy, around the Naples region of Campania. It is currently not believed to be related to the similarly named French wine grape of the Languedoc region, Aspiran. In Naples the grape is used to make lightly sparkling ''frizzante'' wine.<ref name="wine grapes"> {{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Jancis |url=https://archive.org/details/jancisrobinsonsg00robi |title=Jancis Robinson's Guide to Wine Grapes |publisher=Oxford University Press, p. 25 |year=1996 |isbn=0-19-860098-4 |url-access=registration}} </ref>
==Synonyms== Among the synonyms Asprinio is known under include Asprinia di Aversa, Asprinio, Asprino, Greco, Lacrima, Olivese, Ragusano, Ragusano Bianco, Uva Asprina and Uva Asprinia. DNA profiling has shown that some plantings in Italy, Greco and ''Asprinio'' were genetically identical.<ref name="Oxford pg 326">J. Robinson (ed.). ''The Oxford Companion to Wine,'' third edition. Oxford University Press 2006, p. 326. {{ISBN|0-19-860990-6}}.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=COSTANTINI|first1=L.|last2=MONACO|first2=A.|last3=VOUILLAMOZ|first3=J.F.|last4=FORLANI|first4=M.|last5=GRANDO|first5=M.S.|title=Genetic relationships among local Vitis vinifera cultivars from Campania (Italy)|journal=Vitis|date=2005|volume=44|pages=25–34|url=http://www.vitis-vea.de/admin/volltext/e050431.pdf|accessdate=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305045259/http://www.vitis-vea.de/admin/volltext/e050431.pdf|archive-date=5 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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Category:White wine grape varieties