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Link Through the Wine Tourism Movement can make a trip to the wineries throughout Italy. Of course there is also Carmignano. There you will find manufacturers, retailers, eateries and hotels. It 's a nice guide on the net, detailed and reliable.
two things on The Carmignano Carmignano is one of the oldest wines in Italy, because the first written documentation that shows the name of a wine Carmignano from the late fourteenth century, it is a document in which a notary Carmignano (PO), Ser Lapo Mazzei, notify a merchant of Prato, Marco Datini, he had ordered for his fifteen loads of wine cellar Charmignano paying a price four times higher than that of local wines (which they showed the superior quality). In the seventeenth century, wine
Carmignano is also mentioned by the poet Francesco Redi, Bacco in Toscana work which enhances their quality. The Carmignano
can be considered the ancestor of wines called Super Tuscans (obtained by adding to the great Tuscan wines Sangiovese international varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot), in fact, already since 1600 for its production is used to add Sangioveto Sauvignon, a grape imported from France by the Medici (and still in the grape called Francesca, that is from France).
The production area of \u200b\u200bCarmignano has been defined since 1716, because September 24 of that year in Florence, the Grand Duke Cosimo III de 'Medici issued the statement in the band above boundaries of the four regions Chianti, Pomino, Carmignano, and Val Arno di Sopra, which were specified the boundaries of the areas within which these wines could be produced (in practice a real anticipation of the concept of DOC).
In 1932, the wine produced in the Carmignano area was included in the production area of \u200b\u200bChianti wines and later (1967) was included in the homonymous Designation of Origin (DOC) as a sub-area of \u200b\u200bChianti Montalbano.
This classification led to a loss of original features, and therefore the quality of wine produced (because the specification did not allow the use of Cabernet grapes), it was only with the DPR 28 April 1975 Carmignano wine was recognized as a standalone of Origin.
The Denomination of Controlled and Guaranteed Origin (DOCG) Carmignano was authorized by Presidential Decree 28 October 1990, as amended by Ministerial Decree 9 July 1998.
Carmignano wine can be obtained only from grapes grown in the area of \u200b\u200bproduction of the specification, using the following grape varieties: Sangiovese
*: * Canaiolo
least 50% black: up to 20% *
Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon from alone or in combination: 10 to 20% *
Trebbiano Toscano, Malvasia del Chianti white Canaiolo individually or jointly: up to a maximum of 10%.
may also be used to produce other red grapes recommended or authorized for the province of Prato up to 10% of the total. It also allowed the addition, up to a maximum of 15%, entitled to the designation of Carmignano wines of different vintages from the one indicated on the label. The minimum alcoholic strength by volume is 12.50%.
wine with a designation of origin and guaranteed Carmignano can not be released to the market before 1 June of the second year following the year the grapes were grown. If the Carmignano wine is released to the market since September 29 (day of the feast of St. Michael the Archangel and Carmignano (PO)) of the third year following the year the grapes were grown, can bring the label to qualify additional reserves. In this If the maturation period is to be made in oak or chestnut, at least eight months for the Carmignano and for at least twelve months for the Carmignano Riserva.
5% of wine aging in the year, to be used exclusively for the topping, can be kept in containers other than wood.
drawn in part from www.wikipedia.com
