And at least one just remarkable: This was Masi’s Costasera Amarone Riserva 2009, which already tasted lush and lovely and which promises to be off-the-charts gorgeous in 20 years. Some very good, drinkable young and worthy of some aging. Some not my style, but well made of their kind, true to their varieties and to the winemaker’s vision. OK, so I’m tilting at windmills again: I’ll dismount and get back to the wines. And the wines at this event and the larger portfolio tasting of which it was part aren’t just fine wines or even great ones: These were “The Icons of Italian Wine.” Icons is a vastly overworked word, but what puts this phrase over the top for me is the definite article: The icons – there can be no others. What is called a seminar these days (and not just by Kobrand: It’s universal) is simply a panel of producers talking a bit about their estates and the representative wine they’re showing. Have you noticed that nothing is selected or organized any longer, but everything is curated? Well, the wine world isn’t exempt from that kind of verbal hyperventilation. The seminar was available only to wine media members, and organized around a selection of Kobrand’s major Italian producers – Pighin (Friuli), Silvio Nardi (Tuscany), Michele Chiarlo (Piedmont), Nozzole (Tuscany), Sette Ponte (Tuscany), Masi (Veneto), and Medici Ermete (Emilia Romagna). This showing of Kobrand’s line of Italian brands was open to the wine trade and media. This wine is by the Frescobaldi family.A few weeks ago, I attended a seminar led by Kevin Zraly at the New York presentation of the importer Kobrand’s annual Tour d’Italia. It’s fruit-forward with dried cherry and plum flavors and a sweet tannin finish. It consistently gets high praise, year in and year out. Tenuta Luce Della Vite “Lucente” Toscana IGTĪ blend of about 50% Merlot, 25% Sangiovese and 25% Cabernet Sauvignon. Here are a few great wines to seek out on your adventure into “Super Tuscany.” Need some Super Tuscan wine recommendations? Regardless of who coined the phrase, producers in Italy were turning heads, making wines that didn’t fit in! He said it might have come from a several sources including the famed Luigi Veronelli, an Italian wine/food writer and intellectual, or from Burton Anderson, a writer who moved to Tuscany in 1977 to write about its bright future, or it could have been David Gleave, a Master of Wine and one of the UK’s leading experts on Italy. We asked wine critic James Suckling where the term may have originated. Super Tuscan is a phrase that was coined in the early 1980’s. Maybe we can call them “Super Italians?” Why do we call them Super Tuscans? They use a wide variety of both indigenous and non-indigenous wine grapes. TIP: There are now IGT Italian wines from all over Italy. The legal system eventually yielded in 1992 with the creation of IGT, a new designation that gave winemakers the ability to be more creative. Winemakers began mixing ‘unsanctioned’ wine varieties (like Merlot) into their blends to make high-quality wines. The creation of super Tuscan wines resulted from the frustration winemakers had towards a slow bureaucracy in changing Italy’s wine law during the 1970s. “Super Tuscan” is a term used to describe red wines from Tuscany that may include non-indigenous grapes, particularly Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Syrah.
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Learn about super Tuscan wine and how to seek them out. What makes “super Tuscan” wine different from other Tuscan wines (like Chianti) is the use of wine grapes that are not indigenous to Italy. The term Super Tuscan was coined in the early 1980s to describe a red blend from Tuscany. The Unofficial Star of Italy: Super Tuscan Wine Learn more about this unofficial category of Italian wine and how to find them.
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