For lovers of beauty: Maremma
The Maremma Toscana DOC wine is produced across the entire territory of the province of Grosseto, a vast area in the south of Tuscany that extends from the heights of Mount Amiata and, crossing the gentle hills of the Fiora, Albegna, and Ombrone river valleys, reaches the coast, Mount Argentario, and the island of Giglio. It then spreads north-west of the Ombrone River until the Colline Metallifere on the border of the provinces of Livorno, Pisa, and Siena. This extensive area is characterized by very different climatic conditions, which deeply influences the characteristics of the wine produced there, making the wine selection from this denomination extremely rich and varied.
Unlike other Tuscan areas, with their overwhelming predominance of Sangiovese (regularly over 65% of the total number of vines), in the Maremma area this percentage decreases significantly, giving space to other varieties of vine, some of them traditional - like Alicante, Aleatico, Ciliegiolo, Canaiolo nero and Pugnitello among the red grapes varieties, and Ansonica, Grechetto, Malvasia bianca lunga, Trebbiano toscano and Vermentino among the white - and some of them international - such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Chardonnay, Sauvignon and Viognier. This rich and varied heritage expresses itself in subtly different ways in the area and on its different types of soil.
It is important then that a DOC, as an expression of an area like Maremma Toscana, assimilates this grand diversity of terroir and turns it into a tool that best allows producers to express themselves and offering a selection of versatile and multi-faceted wines that are nonetheless always linked to the Maremma area.
The Consortium of the Maremma Toscana Wines was founded in 2014 as a free association between wineproducers bent on safeguarding their wine and on accentuating its qualities. The Consortium safeguards controls and promotes all the wines of denomination Maremma Toscana.
After two years in business already has 354 member companies - including 68 with "vertical production" - and a total of 4.5 million bottles produced and operates throughout the province of Grosseto, a vast and beautiful area in the south of Tuscany whose origins date back to Etruscan times, stretching from the slopes of Monte Amiata, and reachwww.consorziovinimaremma.ites the Tyrrhenian coast and the Argentario, to the island of Giglio. This area is characterized by different climate zones which deeply affect wine production all over the region. This aspect allow the Maremma Consortium to offer a wide range of different wines, each one with peculiar characteristics.
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