A Wine for your dinner table this Holiday Season: Vigorello San Felice Toscana IGT 2020-$77.99-Italy’s first “Super Tuscan”
“Super Tuscan” is the attention-grabbing name given to a relatively ‘new’ classification of Italian wines that blend international grapes, like Merlot and Cabernet, with native Italian grapes.
The wine critic Robert Parker used the term in the mid-1980s to describe this bold departure from the traditions of Italian winemaking. His writings popularized the name.
Given the glacial nature of changes in that country’s winemaking regulations, producers decided to take things into their own hands and began making a new class of wines that took bold steps into the future.
San Felice: A Tuscan treasure
Before the term ‘Super Tuscan’ was adopted, there were San Felice wines. Nestled in the heart of Tuscany in the Chianti Classico, San Felice has pioneered innovations in the region for the last 50 years.
At its bucolic, picture-perfect estate in Castelnuovo Berardenga, a medieval village outside of Siena, San Felice has cultivated forgotten native grape varieties and blended them with traditional international grapes to create wines of exceptional character. Drink Responsibly.
