Maremma toscana

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The mountain zone includes Monte Amiata, rising to over 1,700 metres, and the Cornate di Gerfalco, reaching over 1,000 metres, both covered by forests of beech, fir, holm oak, and chestnut.
• The loose and medium-textured calcareous alluvial soils, predominant in the valleys of the Ombrone, Osa, Albegna, Fiora, and Cornia rivers, are deep, cool, moderately fertile, and relatively loose and medium-textured.
• The heavy and medium-heavy calcareous alluvial soils of the Grosseto plain, Follonica, and Albinia are silty-clay-calcareous and more often than not moist.
• The average elevation of the province of Grosseto is approximately 140 metres above sea level, with an average slope of 5% and a predominantly south-easterly aspect.
• The climate is temperate Mediterranean in character and presents three conditions: warm temperate along the coast, sub-littoral temperate in the inland areas, and cool temperate on the Monte Amiata massif, with a mean annual temperature below 12°C.

• Near Marsiliana, along the Albegna river, pottery, pithoi, and kilns for wine amphorae have been discovered, suggesting that the site served as a collection point for wines produced in the hills of Manciano and Scansano.
• In a report submitted to the Jacini parliamentary inquiry of 1884, Dr Alfonso Ademollo listed among the varieties cultivated in the lowland and hill zones: anzonache, riminesi, moscatelli, alicanti, aleatiche, malvasie, zibibbi, sangioveto, and procanici.

• The red wines display a good-intensity ruby red colour with violet highlights in young wines, shading to garnet as the wines mature.
• In the Riserva style, the colour tends toward an intense red with more or less pronounced violet highlights, which evolves to garnet with ageing, accompanied by greater aromatic complexity.
• The still white wines show a pale straw-yellow colour of varying intensity, a fine and delicate bouquet, sometimes with more or less pronounced floral and fruity notes.
• The Vin Santo style presents a colour ranging from pale straw-yellow through amber to brown, with a rich and complex nose, ethereal, warm, and intense, with notes of ripe fruit, raisin, and candied fruit.

• The Maestrale breezes that blow during the hottest hours of the day help to moderate temperatures and create conditions unfavourable to parasitic diseases.

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

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Sources

• Specification (EUR-Lex, single document)
• eAmbrosia register (EU) — File number PDO-IT-A1413
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Tutela Vini della Maremma Toscana