Vino Nobile di Montepulciano: DOCG Rules, Historic Cellars and Winery Visits
Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is one of the easiest Tuscan wines to misunderstand because the place name and the grape name used elsewhere in Italy sound identical. Here, Montepulciano is the hill town in southern Tuscany; the DOCG is based on Sangiovese, not on the Montepulciano grape associated with Abruzzo. That distinction is more than…