Suvereto
2 wineries and 2 wines. This red appellation of the Tuscan coast covers a single commune: Suvereto, on the hills of the Val di Cornia in the province of Livorno, inland from Piombino and south of Bolgheri. It began as a subzone of the Val di Cornia DOC, created in 1989; the subzone was drawn in 2000 and became a DOCG of its own in 2011. Read more ↓
- Tier
- DOCG
- Region
- Tuscany
- Grapes
- Sangiovese, Merlot
- Styles
- Red
- Producers
- 2
Wineries making Suvereto
Suvereto wines
About Suvereto
Like its neighbour to the north, Suvereto is Bordeaux-leaning country. The basic wine may be Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot in any proportion, and there are varietal versions of each, and of Sangiovese, at 85 per cent or more. Nothing may be sold before the first of June of the second year after the harvest; a Riserva spends at least eighteen months in oak and six in bottle, from vineyards cropped at no more than eight tonnes a hectare instead of nine.
The production rules describe a warm, dry place: an average temperature of about 14 °C and rarely more than 650 mm of rain a year, with a wide swing between day and night that the growers credit for the wines' perfume. The soils are loams, some sandier, some heavier with clay, neutral to slightly alkaline. Vines were grown here under the Etruscans and the Romans, and planting spread again from the seventeenth century.