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Super Tuscan

Popular designation (also Super Tuscans or Vini da tavola eccellenti) for excellent Italian wines from Tuscany, which often challenge the narrow DOC boundaries criticised by these producers. This means that these wines are vinified with other grape varieties, contrary to the DOC regulations. Some of them even surpass DOCG wines in terms of quality. In 1992, the Italian Minister of Agriculture Giovanni Goria (1943-1994) introduced the IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) country wine designation as part of the Goria Law, which was subsequently named after him. This made it possible to market excellent table wines with a controlled origin, as had long been the case in France, Spain and Germany. Incidentally, a first attempt in this direction had already been made in Tuscany in the 1980s with the Capitolare classification.

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