Tuscan wines: top 5

A very easy guide to know the best tuscan wines

Tuscany in fact boasts many areas with production of IGT labels (about 40), DOCG (about 11) and about thirty DOC wines, full bodied and consistent red wines such as Brunello di Montalcino, Chianti, Rosso di Montalcino and many others .If you want to try a new tasting experience, savoring new aromas and flavors that will transport you to the hilly terrain of this region, follow the advice of our sommelier and avoid buying products that do not fully express these precious characteristics. These wines are in strong competition with those of Piedmont because they are considered 2 of the Italian regions with the best wine production.

1° Sassicaia Bolgheri Doc 2014 – San Guido

In the 1920s, a student in Pisa, Mario Incisa della Rocchetta dreamed of creating a race wine.
His ideal, as for the aristocracy of the time, was Bordeaux.
No one had ever thought of making a “Bordeaux” wine in Maremma, an area unknown from a wine point of view.
The decision to plant this variety in the Tenuta San Guido was partly due to the similarity he had noticed between this area of Tuscany and Graves, in Bordeaux. Graves means gravel, due to the rocky terrain that distinguishes the area, just as Sassicaia, in Tuscany, calls an area with the same characteristics.
From 1948 to 1967, Sassicaia remained a strictly private domain, and was drunk only on the estate.
Every year, few cases were put to age in the cellar of Castiglioncello.
The Marquis soon realized that as he aged the wine improved considerably. As often happens with wines of great stature, those that were previously considered defects, over time became virtues.
Now friends and relatives incited Mario Incisa to deepen his experiments and perfect his revolutionary winemaking style for that area.
In the following years the cellar was moved to temperature-controlled premises, steel vats replaced wooden vats for fermentation, and French barriques were introduced for aging.

2° Brunello di Montalcino 2012 – Col D’Orcia

Tradition means respect for the essence of Sangiovese di Montalcino which lies in the potential of aging, in the improvement of wine through the long stay in the wood and the consequent aging in the bottle.
Even today, in Col d’Orcia, Brunello di Montalcino is aged for 3 full years in large oak barrels before bottling and is kept in the cellar 1 year before it goes on the market.

3° Costa Toscana Rosso Due Mani 2013 – Due Mani

Single variety of Cabernet Franc from a careful selection of the areas of the vineyard, large fruit, sweet tannins and complexity.
The result in the glass is superb: blackberry, rosemary, undergrowth and Mediterranean scrub.
Sumptuous balance and impressive length.

4° Chianti Castello di Brolio 2013 – Barone Ricasoli

The production of individual vintages can thus vary in quantity but the quality always remains the highest. The vineyards are located at an altitude between 250 and 450 meters above sea level with south/south-west exposure.
The high skeleton content, the perfect exposures and the optimal soil altitudes identify the typicality of this wine.

5° Rosso di Montalcino 2014 – Val di Suga

Exactly like Brunello di Montalcino also the Rosso is produced only using the sangiovese grosso, the most typical variety of the hills of Illycino. The result is a wine of great frankness and expressiveness, fragrant and immediate, which unlike its older brother is marketed about two years after harvest to preserve these natural characteristics. Poliedrico, is a wine that can adapt to all occasions and accompany innumerable traditional Tuscan dishes.

 

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