The region around Rome is known as Lazio, and it's full of grapes and subregions> you've most likely never heard of. I can remember traveling in Italy with my sister in the summer of 1987 and landing in Frascati with the son of the proprietor who ran the little hotel we were staying at in Rome and his friend, Dario. They took us in a tiny, navy blue Fiat up to this lookout point in the hills surrounding Rome. It was sort of a cross between a German biergarten (with the hanging lights and picnic tables) and lots of delicious Italian food trucks. We loaded up on several share plates, got a pitcher of Frascati and had dinner overlooking Rome... one of the best memories of that trip! It's only now that I'm in the wine business, that I know that Frascati is in Lazio and that it's smack in between Rome and Cori, a village about an hour and a half southeast of Rome.