Montecastelli

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The production zone is characterised by extensive woodland areas accounting for more than 50% of the total surface, alongside cultivated hillsides lying between 300 and 700 metres above sea level.
• The soils of the area are medium-textured, with a tendency towards clay.
• The climate is typical of the inland areas of Tuscany, tempered by the influence of the Tyrrhenian coast, with rarely excessive temperature swings.
• Mean annual temperatures hover around 14 °C, and total annual rainfall does not exceed 900 mm, with precipitation concentrated in spring and in late autumn/early winter.
• A highly distinctive microclimate develops across the area, generating peculiar conditions for the production of wines with specific chemical, physical, and organoleptic characteristics.

• The 1840 Volterran land register records vine-cultivated land totalling 39,411,697 staiate, a surface area five times greater than that planted with olives.
• As early as the 1840 land register, the most widely cultivated varieties were Sangiovese, Canaiolo nero, Malvasia toscana, and Trebbiano bianco — varieties that have persisted to the present day.
• In the spring of 1906, Volterra hosted a Circondario wine exhibition at which many wines from the Montecastelli IGP production area were awarded prizes.

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-A1438
• Official trade body site — Consorzio Vino Toscana