Enoteca Italiana

Frommer's Review

The 16th-century Fortezza Medicea has been turned into a public park. Its courtyard is an open-air theater, its ramparts are a place for a stroll and a view, and its vaults are filled with Italy's national wine museum. Seated at small tables in the tunnel-like brick halls or out on the terraces in summer, you can sample a choice selection of Tuscan and Italian wines by the glass or go all out on an entire bottle from their extensive cantine (more than 1,200 labels cool their heels here). It wouldn't be fair to say this is a truly representative collection, because not all vintners choose to take part, but it has been Italy's official state-mandated museo del vino since 1950. Out of Italy's some 4,000 wines, it preserves at least all 266 kinds of DOC, each of the 17 DOCG labels, and every last one of Italy's 128 IGT wines.

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