Costa Toscana

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Terroir

• The 379 km coastal strip is largely flat, with hills descending close to the shoreline between Livorno and Rosignano, at Piombino, Punta Ala, the Parco dell'Uccellina, and the Argentario.
• The ridges delimiting the territory reach over 2,000 m on the Alpi Apuane, 1,000 m on Monte Amiata, and around 700 m on the Monti Pisani and the Colline Metallifere, while the hilly zone of the PGI ranges between 200 and 400 m above sea level.
• Rainfall increases from south to north, rising from an annual average of 600 mm south of Grosseto to around 750 mm in the upper part of the Province of Livorno, and reaching 800–850 mm in the zone facing the Alpi Apuane.
• The zone facing the Alpi Apuane and along the Apennine ridge records the highest rainfall values, on the basis of which the territory is classified as perhumid in climate type.
• The entire coastal strip consists of sands and silts from Quaternary alluvial deposits, interrupted in the northern section by sandstones, clays, claystones, marls, and conglomerates of Paleocene and Eocene formation, as well as claystones and limestones of Cretaceous and Eocene age.

• The wine named Toscana was already mentioned in the eighteenth century, as attested by publications of the period including the Oenologia Toscana by Cosimo Villafranchi of 1773.
• Growers train their vines mainly in the capovolto or Guyot system, on a spur-trained cordon, or as alberello, retaining few productive buds in order to favour sugar accumulation and aromatic compounds.

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

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Sources

• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PGI-IT-A1434
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Vino Toscana