Val di Cornia Rosso

Styles

Principal grape varieties

Accessory grape varieties

Terroir

• The zone features cavernous limestones and stratified black limestones dating to the middle-upper 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 mineralisation of metallic sulfides.
• The soils display medium-loam, medium sandy-loam, and medium clay-loam textures, with a predominantly sub-alkaline reaction, sometimes neutral or alkaline.
• A large part of the zone consists of light sandy-silty and silty-sandy alluvial soils, deep and fresh, alongside heavy silty and clayey alluvial soils, equally deep and fresh.
• Mean annual temperature is around 14 °C, and annual rainfall does not exceed 650 mm, concentrated mainly between March–April and October–November.

• Pliny the Elder, in his Naturalis Historia, recorded the existence at Populonia of a vine of such dimensions that the face of Jupiter had been carved into it.
• In the fourteenth century the Della Gherardesca family, feudal lords of a territory stretching from Cecina to Follonica, promoted the planting of vineyards in the areas of Campiglia Marittima, Sassetta, and Suvereto.

• The wines are deep ruby-red in colour, evolving towards garnet with age, while the nose is intense, elegant, and broad, with notes of red woodland fruits.
• The palate is warm and dry, full-bodied, and appropriately tannic, with spiced notes and hints of wood in aged bottlings; wines destined for extended ageing develop increasingly intense and persistent aromas and flavours over time.

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-A1262
• Official trade body site — Consorzio di tutela vini DOP Suvereto e Val di Cornia