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Cabernet Sauvignon
Also called Cabernet.
The outsider that changed Italian wine. It was planted in Tuscany long before the rules allowed it, and the wines that resulted had to be sold as table wine because the appellation system had no room for them. It thrives on the coast, above all in Bolgheri, where the maritime climate keeps it from going jammy and gives it cassis, graphite and a cedar note with age.
Worth knowing
Sassicaia started as a private wine for one family's table, made from cuttings planted in the 1940s at Tenuta San Guido. It was sold as vino da tavola for decades, and eventually got a DOC of its own, the only single estate DOC in Italy.
Where it is allowed82 appellations
Tuscany29
- Barco Reale di CarmignanoDOCStill hunting
- BolgheriDOClead grapeTasted
- Bolgheri SassicaiaDOClead grapemin 80%Still hunting
- CapalbioDOCStill hunting
- CarmignanoDOCGStill hunting
- ChiantiDOCGTasted
- Chianti ClassicoDOCGTasted
- Colli dell'Etruria CentraleDOCStill hunting
- CortonaDOCStill hunting
- Grance SenesiDOCStill hunting
- Maremma ToscanaDOCStill hunting
- MontecarloDOCStill hunting
- MontecuccoDOCStill hunting
- Monteregio di Massa MarittimaDOCStill hunting
- MontescudaioDOCStill hunting
- Morellino di ScansanoDOCGStill hunting
- OrciaDOCStill hunting
- ParrinaDOCStill hunting
- PominoDOCTasted
- Rosso della Val di Cornia (Val di Cornia Rosso)DOCGStill hunting
- San GimignanoDOCStill hunting
- Sant'AntimoDOClead grapeStill hunting
- SovanaDOCStill hunting
- SuveretoDOCGlead grapeStill hunting
- Terratico di BibbonaDOCStill hunting
- Terre di CasoleDOCStill hunting
- Terre di PisaDOCStill hunting
- Val d'Arno di Sopra (Valdarno di Sopra)DOCStill hunting
- Val di CorniaDOCStill hunting
Veneto15
- ArcoleDOCStill hunting
- Bagnoli di Sopra (Bagnoli)DOCStill hunting
- BreganzeDOCStill hunting
- Colli BericiDOCStill hunting
- Colli di ConeglianoDOCGStill hunting
- Colli EuganeiDOCStill hunting
- Corti Benedettine del PadovanoDOCStill hunting
- MerlaraDOCStill hunting
- Montello Asolo (Asolo Montello)DOCStill hunting
- Montello Rosso (Montello)DOCGlead grape40 to 70 percentStill hunting
- Monti LessiniDOCStill hunting
- PiaveDOCStill hunting
- Riviera del BrentaDOCStill hunting
- VeneziaDOCStill hunting
- VicenzaDOCStill hunting