Carmignano

Italy · DOCG (PDO) · Toscana · 1 commune(s)

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Natural factors

The Montalbano range extends from Serravalle Pistoiese to the escarpment above the Arno south of Artimino, running northwest to southeast and reaching its highest point at Poggio al Ciliegio at 611 metres above sea level.
The geological core is formed by macigno, a graded quartz-feldspathic sandstone of Oligocene age, overlain across much of the northeastern slope by the chaotic complex of scaly clays.
To the north and south of Carmignano, extensive outcrops of alberese — a whitish marly limestone with conchoidal fracture — emerge over a wide area.
Most of the hillsides lie at relatively modest, well-sun-exposed elevations, rarely exceeding three hundred metres above sea level.
Mean annual rainfall is below one thousand millimetres, with most precipitation concentrated in autumn and winter, though summer also contributes a meaningful water supply.
Soils derived from sandstones are loose, sandy loam, slightly acidic, and well supplied with potassium, while those derived from the clay complex and marly limestones have a fine, clay-loam or clay texture.

Human factors

In 1396, the notary Lapo Mazzei purchased fifteen some of Carmignano wine for Marco Datini at a price roughly four times that of the most prestigious wines of the era.
In 1716, the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III de' Medici issued an edict to fix clearly and unambiguously the boundaries of the Carmignano wine production zone.
In the seventeenth century, the poet Francesco Redi cited Carmignano in his dithyramb Bacco in Toscana, praising its qualities in flattering terms.
Carmignano wine received recognition as a Denominazione di origine controllata in 1975 and, in 1990, among the first Italian wines to do so, as a Denominazione di origine controllata e garantita.

Facts drawn from the specification's terroir-link section by automatic interpretation — see the source.

About this boundary

Area: the official production zone published by the regional geoportal (Toscana).