Discovering Super Tuscans: Traditional vs Modern Winemaking

Exploring Super Tuscans in Chianti overview

Explore the contrast between traditional and modern winemaking in Tuscany, from Antinori's grand facility to Casa Emma's rustic charm, as both vie for recognition in the Super Tuscan wine category.

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• Wine expert Guy Woodward travels to COMO Castello Del Nero and Chianti to get to the heart of Italy's modern, rich and bold wine flavours.
• The rolling hills of Chianti are those of the mind’s eye.
• A patchwork of venerable olive trees and rows of gnarled vines is broken only by the odd stone farmhouse dotting the parched landscape, its terracotta hue mirroring that of the setting Tuscan sun.
• Save for the odd Fiat 500 traversing the winding roads, it is a scene as old as, well….
• The annual grape and olive harvests have been playing out in this Tuscan heartland since the days of the Etruscans in the 8th century BC.
• Producers jostle for the accolade of oldest – Antinori, one of the bastions of the region, traces its commercial production back to 1385.
• Its winemaking heritage has since survived – and thrived – unbroken through 26 generations of its aristocratic lineage to establish the family name as one of Italian wine’s most renowned (and yes, it makes olive oil too).
• Yet we are viewing the footage in a cinema-sized auditorium within Antinori’s vast, headline-making, 50,000 square-metre winery built into the contours of the Chianti countryside.
• Opened in 2012, the architecturally vaunted facility’s cost spiralled as extravagantly as the faux weathered steel stairs that cascade down into the underground cellars, finally clocking in at well over $100m.
• We are on a two-hour tour with 14 others, from Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Belgium Germany, the US and the UK.

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