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Carmignano DOCG is one of the still red wine lesser-known appellation from the famous Tuscany wine region of central Italy. The wine region is centred on the city of Carmignano, about 16 kilometres northwest of Florence.
Carmignano DOCG wine has been known since the Etruscan times, and mentioned, for its fundamental importance. As early as the 1300s, Pietro Domenico Bartoloni, a chronicler, stated that the “wines of Carmignano and Artimino are excellent”. Ricci in the “Historical Memoirs of Carmignano”, 1895, reports that Ser Lapo Mazzei bought on December 8, 1396, on behalf of Marco Datini, 15 barrels of Carmignano wine at the price of “a seal florin” the soma (a price equal to about four times that of the most highly rated wines at that time). Redi (1673), in his famous dithyramb, speaks in very flattering terms about the “Carmignano”.
The Carmignano wine was very well known even outside the Tuscan borders, so much so that in 1716 the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III de Medici issued a proclamation to clearly and unequivocally set the boundaries of the production area of the “Carmignano wine ” together with those of three other wines. Numerous other testimonies, subsequent to the Grand Ducal announcement, confirm the recognition of particular characteristics to this wine and such as to clearly distinguish it from other renowned wines produced in the various areas of Tuscany.
The Carmignano DOCG wine obtained the recognition of the Controlled Designation of Origin on 28, April 1975 and DOCG on October 20, 1990.
The production area corresponds to the hilly lands of Carmignano and Poggio a Caiano in the province of Prato. The Carmignano area is particularly suited for the cultivation of vines, thanks to an adequately ventilated, bright and favourable environment for all the vegetative and productive functions of the plant.
The long vegetative period, the high-temperature ranges, the ventilation of the slopes, the well-distributed rainfall also in the summer period favours the ripening of the grapes. It facilitates the constancy of quality in all years. The result is a red wine for ageing, structured and at the same time elegant and harmonious with a fine and intense bouquet.
The Carmignano DOCG designation of origin is reserved for still red wine, obtained from grapes of the Sangiovese vine (min. 50%), Canaiolo Nero (max. 20%), Cabernet Franc and Cabernet sauvignon (10-20%) and a possible addition of white grapes (max. 10%) of the Tuscan Trebbiano, Canaiolo Bianco and Malvasia del Chianti vines.
Thanks to a favourable microclimate Carmignano is a sumptuous wine, which combines the elegance of Sangiovese with the opulence of Cabernet Sauvignon. And the result of this blend is an excellent wine with warm fruit, based on black cherries and blueberries, with a good body: elegant, with deep nuances that come from Cabernet.
This wine is often paired with structured dishes such as the Florentine meatloaf, the guinea fowl in foil, the roasted pork on the spit, the Florentine steak.
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