Vino Nobile di Montepulciano

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano

DOCG for dry red wine in the Italian region Tuscany . The area includes 1,200 hectares of vineyard in the town of Montepulciano (Siena), the slopes 250-600 meters above sea level. The town of Montepulciano is situated 120 kilometers southeast of Florence in the upper Val di Chiana, is one of the most beautiful of Tuscany and is referred to as the "Pearl of the Renaissance." Once a year in August in the city of the wine barrels "race Bravio delle Botti" instead, roll with the representatives of the eight "enemy" neighborhoods five quintals heavy barrels through the steep, narrow streets. Montepulciano was the home of two popes, and Paul III. (1468-1549) moved to his hometown of wine before anyone else. Meanwhile, Butler praised him in 1549 as a "perfect wine".

The origin of the wine goes back to 1300, he was already in the Middle Ages, famous throughout Europe and much praised. The Italian poet Francesco Redi (1626-1698) titled it in his poem "Bacchus in Tuscany" as the "king of wines" to get the wine for the royal court in London. Many other poets have sung of him, which is now referred to as the "doyen of all Tuscan wines." The best wine was traditionally reserved for the Pope and the Curia in the Vatican. When it came to the 18th but only from the Century decorative or additional common nickname "Vino Nobile" wine for the making - that is, the nobility.

With the Brunello di Montalcino (Tuscany also), he is one of the two wines that received in 1980 as the first, the DOCG classification. He is undeniably one of the outstanding red wines of Italy. The best areas (clay and sandy soil) are Argiano Caggiole, Canneto Casalte and Valiano. The wine is made Prugnolo Gentile - Sangiovese clone (70-100%), Canaiolo Nero (10-20%), and other permitted white and red varieties (up to 20%, of which more than 10% white - but no aromatic Malvasia and Moscato, for example) produced. The wine has a bouquet of violets, aged at least two years in oak or chestnut barrels, must be at least 12.5% ​​vol. Alcohol and have a long shelf life. The wines may be bottled only in the growing region of Bordeaux bottles go on sale. With three years of storage (six months in the bottle) and 13% alcohol content, he may, in addition, the label designation reserve lead. Red wines from the same community (but other areas) are less stringent regulations than DOC Rosso di Montepulciano classified.