Val di Cornia

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The area features cavernous limestones and stratified black limestones of the Upper Middle Triassic, with lithologies belonging to the Tuscan, Austro-Alpine, and Ligurian domains in the hilly portion.
• Extensive intrusive events of magmatic rocks are present, associated with skarn mineralizations of metallic sulfides.
• The texture of the agricultural soil shows granulometric fractions of medium loam, medium sandy loam, and medium clay loam, with an essentially sub-alkaline reaction, sometimes neutral or alkaline.
• A large portion of the zone consists of light sandy-silty and silty-sandy alluvial soils, deep and fresh, or of heavy silty and clayey alluvial soils, also deep and fresh.
• The mean annual temperature is around 14°C and rainfall does not exceed 650 mm, with precipitation concentrated mainly between March–April and October–November.

• In the fourteenth century the Della Gherardesca family, the feudal landowners, carried out vineyard plantings in the areas of Campiglia Marittima, Sassetta, and Suvereto.
• In 1886 five producers from Suvereto took part in the World Exhibition in Rome, and in 1907 some producers were present at an enological competition dedicated to the wines of Tuscany.

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 PDO-IT-A1498
• Official trade body site — Consorzio di tutela vini DOP Suvereto e Val di Cornia