Bianco Capena is a DOC in the Lazio wine region of central western Italy, created in July 1975 to cover the white wines from Capena, a village in the rolling hills just north of Rome.
The classic Bianco Capena wine is a crisp dry white made from Trebbiano and Malvasia grapes. The vineyards which produce it lie between the Via Flaminia and the winding Tiber river on its southerly course from the Apennine peaks to the center of Rome and the Tyrrhenian Sea beyond. The Via Flaminia is an ancient Roman road which traversed the Appennino Centrale mountains, connecting Rome with Rimini (included in the Colli Rimini DOC) on the Adriatic coast of Emilia-Romagna. No doubt the vineyards around Capena and its neighbors Fiano Romano, Morlupo and Castelnuovo di Porto (which are also partly covered by the DOC's catchment area) provided many a thirsty traveller with his last drink of wine before reaching Rome, or his first on the long road north. The road has now been built over in this area by the SS3 (Strada Statale 3) state road.
