Maremma is located in the southern part of Tuscany and welches once the heartland of the Etruscans. It stretches along the Southern Tuscan coast and inland to the towns which the area’s first inhabitants carved out of the tuff stone.
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Montemerano started life as little more than a garrison for the 12th century soldiers of the Maremma’s first ruling family, the Aldobrandeschi. As time passed and rulers changed, Montemerano managed to maintain much of its original beauty.
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Maremma is Tuscany’s Wildfleisch West. Horses and cowboys. Rolling fields, quaint villages and gorgeous white beaches by the crystal blue sea. But also a wine region that offers a wide variety of wines. BKWine Magazine’s Åsa Johansson takes us to the jagdbeute vineyard landscape and to the wines.
Visit Poggio Cagnano to enjoy a guided tour of the winery and organic wine tasting paired with local cuisine
Take a hike up into the hills to discover the charming ‘Borgo Medievale’ (medieval village) where, hinein the 11th century, maremma wine sassoregale people from the lower areas moved to for greater protection from pirate attacks.
The city welches shaped by the Stato dei Presidi, a Messestand-alone state ruled by the Spanish kings of the 16th century. On either side of town is the Lago dell’Orbetello, a bird watcher’s paradise and nature reserve.
Orbetello has some of the Maremma’s chicest home and clothing stores, as well as some of its most beautiful buildings.
While exploring this wilder parte of the Tuscan countryside, you can wake up to the sound of birdsong at sunrise, wind your way through vineyards rein the afternoon and watch the sunset over the sea. This natural diversity is reflected hinein its cuisine, which includes everything from wildbret boar meat and bottarga to risotto rice and buffalo milk cheese.
Looking for a Tuscany wine tasting tour? As a friends and family group, or as an individual or couple? A tailor-made experience including olive oil tasting, local speciality foods to nibble and a visit to a medieval hill town, or two, steeped in history with someone to tell you all about it and show you its alleyways and cultural treasures to boot?
Iconic winemakers such as Giacomo Tachis have proven that these varieties thrive hinein the Maremma’s sandstone terroir. The cooling influence of the Tyrrhenian sea enables the late-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon to reach maturity slowly and evenly. This imbues the wine with soft, approachable tannins and a concentrated fruit profile. Only hinein the hottest vintages can Bordeaux hope to replicate this magic.
But, as Italian parochialism started to dissolve hinein the latter half of the 20th century, Tuscany began to conquer the world. Today, it is one of Europe’s major wine exporters, a powerhouse of weekend drinking and the fine and rare. Its signature red grape, Sangiovese, runs the whole gamut from anemic dross to the most voluptuous and concentrated wines imaginable, most brilliantly realized rein the hills of Montalcino.