We now live in a world of good wines - excellent wines
in a great many cases. The bad old days (1950's, 1960's, in
this case) of watery acidic plonk arriving in a
straw-covered flask (appropriately, "fiasco" in
Italian) are well and truly past. Almost all Tuscan
DOC wines and DOCG
wines produced in Tuscany, plus many IGT
Tuscan wines, are good or very good. This means that
when wine tasting in Tuscany, we can in effect expect the
wine to be more than drinkable and therefore what we are
searching for is a wine that suits our taste. That could be
a wine similar to what we have always enjoyed, or something
interesting and novel - this depends on the individual and
often also on the occasion.
Prepare before your Tuscan wine tasting tour
The following links provide some useful background
information on Tuscan wines and Tuscany wine zones:
• DOCG, DOC and IGT Tuscan wines
- the areas and wine classification.
• Chianti Classico wine region of Tuscany.
• Introduction
to the geography and main towns of the Chianti Classico area.
• Chianti and Tuscany :: Grapes and Wines.
• Italian
wine grape varietals.
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