The indigenous red wine variety comes from the town of Tróia, which was founded by the hero Diomedes, one of the warriors in the legendary Trojan Horse during the conquest of Troy. When returning from Troy, his ship was blown away by a storm on the Apulian coast. This also explains the unverifiable hypothesis that an ancestor of the variety was brought by the Greeks from Troy in Asia Minor.
This grape variety is also known by the name of:
Troja, Trojana, Troiano, Sommarrello, Somarello, Tranese, Summariello, Sumarello, Uva della Marina, Uva di Barletta, Uva di Canosa , Uva di Troia , Uva di Troya
