Albania Atlas

Every county, coast and century

The Albania Atlas
Places
Sections
Tools
Settings
Dark mode
Interface language
About
Settings
Dark mode
Interface language

Guided view
New to Albania? Every page opens with a plain-language explanation you could read to a ten-year-old, before the detail begins.

Expert view
You already know the basics. Straight to the substance, with the simple explanations hidden. This is the default.

★ Your saved pages
Kallmeti wine red
Arianit · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Drink

Kallmet

A dark northern red grape from the Lezhë–Shkodër zone, related to Hungary's Kadarka.

Save Stub

Type
Grape variety
Grown in
Lezhë and Shkodër counties
Related to
Kadarka, grown in Hungary and the wider Balkans

In plain language

Kallmet is a red grape grown in the north of Albania, around Lezhë and Shkodër. It makes deep coloured wine and is related to a grape grown in Hungary.

Simple explanation

Kallmet is a red grape grown in the north of Albania, around Lezhë and Shkodër. It makes deep coloured wine and is related to a grape grown in Hungary.

Connected subjects

Related subjects

Town · Lezhë

Lezhë

Where the Albanian princes swore their 1444 league, and where Skanderbeg is buried.

Drink

Albanian Wine

A wine culture running back to Illyrian times, rebuilt after 1990 around native grapes.

Sources

  • Wikipedia. Kallmet (grape) — English Wikipedia · retrieved 13 Oct 2026
    Used to ground the deep-research section and as a discovery aid; not relied on alone for contested claims.
  • Wikidata. Wikidata item Q141285582 · retrieved 13 Oct 2026
    Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year.
  • Wikimedia Commons. Photographs · retrieved 13 Oct 2026
    Each photograph carries its own creator, licence and file link beneath it. Only public-domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA files are published.

Something wrong on this page? Corrections are welcome and are checked against the source record. Tell us what is wrong and, if you can, where the right figure comes from.