Catalanesca is a table grape of the Vesuvian belt, grown today especially around Somma Vesuviana and in neighbouring communes such as Sant’Anastasia and Ottaviano. Regione Campania describes roundish berries of a typical golden colour, hanging in a loose cluster and valued for white flesh that is thick, very sweet and full of flavour. That combination of colour, crunch and sugar is why the variety still draws attention on the slopes of Vesuvius.
Bite into a berry and the pulp is sweet, with plenty of crunchy pips. High sugar makes leftover fruit suitable for vinification, yet that work is recorded as remaining exclusively local and family-scale. The grape itself is treated as a table product; only what exceeded the table went toward that household wine.
Since 2006 the variety has also been officially added to the list of wine grapes. That listing does not erase its identity as fruit for the table, nor does it imply industrial cellars: the documented vinification stays small and nearby. For anyone following Campanian grapes, the useful distinction is this dual register—golden eating fruit first, with a later, tightly local path into wine.