Sangiovese Wine

Sangiovese wine is the most popular red Italian wine. It’s used primarily in red wine blends to create the popular Chianti wine and also for the expensive, higher end wines called Super Tuscans.

It is widely grown in Italy and the most popular of the Italian red wines in the country. It’s an interesting red wine in that it has an uncountable number of clones that create this wine’s variety of tastes and structures.

Tuscany is well known for this wine and uses it to create its three popular Tuscan wines: Chianti wine, Vino Nobile di Montepulciano and Brunello di Montalcino. It is also used as the main component of the high end, expensive red Italian wine from Tuscany known as Super Tuscans.

This type of red wine can be a temperamental wine and tough to grow. It doesn’t always fully ripen and when it does ripen, it can ripen unevenly. In addition to Italy, it’s also grown in Washington State, California and Argentina. The California varietal is much fruitier than its Italian counterpart.

Find out more about the other popular types of red wine including:

Also, learn more about these regional red wine types:

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