Ananda di Toscana | Tuscany

2003

'Super Tuscan' made by the renowned Alberto Antonini, the former head wine maker for the Marchesi Antinori reponsible for Tignanello and Solaia. The wine is everything that the finest wine growing region in Italy can produce. A fraction of the price of its peers—this is a very special wine.

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Our tasting notes

Leather and aromas of black cherry, eucalyptus and spices, the taste is an explosion of fruit with a layered intensity and an excellent balance of alcohol and acidity with sweet velvety tannins. Perfect for drinking now—and will age beautifully.

Wine data

Grape variety: Sangiovese, Merlot
Appellation: IGT Toscana
Winemaker: Alberto Antonini
Alcohol: 13.0%

 

About Super Tuscans

The term 'Super Tuscan' describes any Tuscan red wine that does not adhere to traditional blending laws. Chianti Classico uses the traditional Tuscan Sangiovese as its dominant grape, blending it with red grapes of lesser character, like Canaiolo and Mammolo, and sometimes the two white grapes, Malvasia and Trebbiano.

In the 1970s Piero Antinori, whose family had been making wine for more than 600 years, decided to make a richer wine by eliminating the white grapes, and adding Bordeaux grape varieties (namely Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot). The result was the first Super Tuscan, which he named Tignanello, after the vineyard where the grapes were grown. Other winemakers started experimenting with Super Tuscan blends of their own shortly thereafter.

 

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