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Vino Nobile di Montepulciano

19 cantine e 52 vini. The whole appellation lies in the commune of Montepulciano, in the province of Siena, on the hills between 250 and 600 metres; the floor of the Valdichiana below is left out. Its ground sets it apart from its neighbours: mostly Pliocene marine sediments, with sands dominating on the higher ground — sands that in Tuscany are this widespread only here and at San Gimignano, and almost absent at Montalcino and in Chianti Classico. On the slopes down towards the Valdichiana the soils are older, Pleistocene continental deposits. Continua a leggere ↓

19Cantine
52Vini
At a glance
Livello
DOCG
Regione
Toscana
Uve
Sangiovese, Merlot, Canaiolo Nero
Tipologie
Rossi
Produttori
19
Elenco

Cantine che producono Vino Nobile di Montepulciano

19 cantine
La denominazione

Vino Nobile di Montepulciano in breve

The wine must be at least 70 per cent Sangiovese, which in Montepulciano goes by the name Prugnolo Gentile. It may not be sold until it has aged two years from the first of January after the harvest; a Riserva ages three, six months of them in bottle. Since the 2021 vintage the label may also name one of twelve Pievi, the old parish districts into which the territory was divided from late Roman and Lombard times.

The wine has been traded rather than simply drunk at home for over a thousand years: sales are recorded from 789, and a document of 1350 set out the first terms for its export. In the seventeenth century Francesco Redi called it the king of every wine, and the words "Vino Nobile" first appear in a travel account of 1787. It became a DOC in 1966 and a DOCG in 1980.