This paper argues that a noun's gender can make the noun uncountable, even if the noun has access to count meaning. This is contrary to the predictions that (i) every noun should be countable (Borer 2005), and (ii) access to count meaning should license countability. These predictions are challenged by neuter nouns in Maceratese, an Italo-Romance variety where neuter is associated with masshood. For example, the neuters caffè 'coffee' and vi 'wine' respectively have access to the count meaning 'kind of coffee' and 'kind of wine,' but both lack plural inflection, and vi 'wine' is also incompatible with the singular count determiner quarsiasi 'any.' Despite the limited countability of caffè 'coffee' and the full uncountability of vi 'wine,' this paper advances the view that any noun is countable as a rule, and the exceptional uncountability of neuters in Maceratese is due to specific circumstances in the Latin-to-Romance transition, i.e., they constitute a deviation from the norm of countability.