What is the difference between a Tuscan and a Super Tuscan?

What is the difference between a Tuscan and a Super Tuscan?

How Is a Super Tuscan Wine Different Than a Chianti? Super Tuscans and Chiantis are both types of red wine made in Tuscany. The difference between a Super Tuscan wine and Chianti is DOC status, a legal designation given to wines that adhere to strict guidelines.

Is Toscana the same as Super Tuscan?

In 1992, the Italian government introduced a new wine classification: Toscana IGT. Toscana IGT, however, held little romance for critics or consumers, so the term super Tuscan took hold.

What grape makes Super Tuscan?

Grapes commonly used in Super Tuscan wines are the classic Italian variety Sangiovese alongside more international varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah and Cabernet Franc.

What pairs well with a Super Tuscan?

For Sangiovese-prominent Super Tuscan wines like Tignanello, focus on herby, spicy meats and mushrooms, and tomato-based pasta dishes like lasagna. Pair Sassicaia and other Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines with grilled or roasted meats, such as filet mignon or lamb steak with rosemary.

Is Sassicaia Super Tuscan?

Sassicaia is a wine known and loved the world over. From a beautiful coastal hamlet in Tuscany, this Super Tuscan blend is hands down Italy’s most famous wine.

What is an IGT wine?

IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) designations allow foreign grape varieties to be added. It is used most famously in Tuscany with the addition of French varietals like Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon to Chianti Classico, creating the Supertuscans. It is now in every Italian region except Piedmont.

What does Super Tuscan wine taste like?

Here we have a beautiful Cabernet and Sangiovese blend from the Chianti region. This was also the first vintage of Tignanello to be named a Super Tuscan. This Tuscan wine has an overpowering nose of dark fruit and oak. On the palate, ripe plum and black cherry flavors are accompanied by chocolate and smoke hints.

Is Villa Antinori a Super Tuscan?

As the Antinori’s recognized how non-native grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah and Petit Verdot added to Sangiovese raised the level of quality of their wine they started blending more and more and finally could no longer use the DOC designation and so it became a Super Tuscan IGT.

Is Brunello a Super Tuscan?

Brunello is a Tuscan wine, the only Tuscan made with just one grape: Sangiovese. Actually, it’s made with the Sangiovese Grosso clone, which produces slightly plumper, richer berries.

What blend is Sassicaia?

Sassicaia is a wine known and loved the world over. From a beautiful coastal hamlet in Tuscany, this Super Tuscan blend is hands down Italy’s most famous wine. It is also the world’s second most counterfeited wine after Chateau Petrus.

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