page_title: Girò
section_title: Origins
hierarchical_section_title: Girò / Origins
caption_attribution_description: English: Anachronous map of the Aragonese Empire. Light blue marks possessions never incorporated into the en:Crown of Aragon. Português: Mapa anacrónico do Império Aragonês. A azul claro marca-se as possessões que nunca foram incorporadas à pt:Coroa de Aragão. Español: Mapa anacrónico de la Corona de Aragón. Las posesiones que no legaron a incorporarse a la Corona están marcadas en celeste.
context_page_description: Girò is a red Italian wine grape variety that is grown on Sardinia and is used mostly in the production of fortified wines in the Giro di Cagliari Denominazione di origine controllata. The grape was once widely planted throughout Sardinia but its plantings were decimated when the phylloxera epidemic hit the island at the end of the nineteenth century. At the turn of the 21st century there were 552 hectares of the grape planted throughout Italy, mostly in the Sardinian provinces of Cagliari and Oristano.
context_section_description: Wine historians and ampelographers have speculated that the grape has Spanish origins and may have been  introduced to the island when it was ruled by the Crown of Aragon. One theory suggest that the grape was brought to Sardinian around the same time that Mazuelo, Graciano and Pascale were introduced.
caption: Ampelographers have speculated that the Girò may have originated in northeast Spain and was introduced to Sardinia when both regions were part of the Aragonese Empire.
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