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The legend among Liguria's wines is Cinqueterre, a white made around the "five lands," a series of fishing villages nestled in the cliffs along the coast north of La Spezia. Wines there have been planted since antiquity on scarcely accessible terraces, some close enough to the Ligurian Sea to catch the spray from breaking waves. Most Cinqueterre is dry, though the sweet Sciacchetrà is coveted by those in the know.
Near La Spezia and the border of Tuscany is the DOC zone of Colli di Luni where red and white wines, notably Vermentino, show class. The recent DOC for Colline di Levanto covers a white and a red, though few other wines of the Riviera Levante, the coast to the southeast of Genoa, are known beyond their localities.
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