The phrase "Super Tuscan" might conjure up fantastic images of caped crusaders from Italian comic books, but these hereos are very real, and they are also delicious. For, 50 years ago, the ...

Founded by Ludovico Antinori in Bolgheri, Italy in 1981, Ornellaia is a Super Tuscan, that is, a wine made in Tuscany whose main grape is not Sangiovese. Most Super Tuscan wines are some ...

Chianti has long been the best-known Tuscan wine in the U.S. But there are many other fine Tuscan wines. And most of the best ...

Super Tuscan: Wines from Tuscany made in ways that do not conform to the traditional winemaking practices dictated by the region's DOCs and DOCGs. Often this means they are made with international ...

Ornellaia, like many other Bolgheri ‘Super Tuscans’ in Tuscany, Italy, looked towards Bordeaux for inspiration although wanting to express their own sense of place that glows under the Tuscan ...

Blending is essential to making some of the world’s most iconic wines. We explored the several ways to blend last week. This week, specific wines created by blending.

Corcos is the co-author of The New York Times bestselling cookbook Extra Virgin: Recipes & Love From Our Tuscan Kitchen (2014) based on his James Beard Award-winning television series Super ...

Their work culminated in Tignanello, the first super Tuscan, which debuted in 1970. Italy needed a wine that would mark it as a great wine nation, and Antinori delivered exactly that. Then he pushed ...

Super Tuscans are sangiovese-based wines from the Chianti region but must be called something else because less than 90% of the wine is sangiovese. Super Tuscans are blends of sangiovese ...