You can see Montepulciano village leant upon a hill from where you can enoy a wide landscape; you can see Umbria as far as the Subasio Mountain, you can enjoy the slopes of Amiata Mountain, the Val d’Orcia and the Valdichiana up to the Trasimeno and Chiusi Lakes. Porsenna seems to be the Founder of this Etruscan Lucumony ... that’s him! the King of Etruscans himself. The origin seems to remind the memory of this city back to the Castle of Poliziano Mountain (lat. Mons Politianus) or to “Castello Policiano”.

Mountain (lat. Mons Politianus) or to “Castello Policiano”. Surrounded by a powerful neighbourhood (Arezzo, Perugia, Orvieto, Firenze and Siena), which it will lean on to support and resist to the several wars it was implied in, in 1511 it finally passes under the power of Firenze. The city is defined “Pearl of the 1500” for the abundance of art works left by great artists, among them are Sano di Pietro, Sodoma and Sangallo il Vecchio. The Church of San Biagio on the South-Western part of the city, presents a curious and well calculated acoustic effect: it seems that the echo of a sound played at the centre of the church is repeated for even 18 times. Among the several famous historical characters to whom the city gave birth, there is of course Angelo Poliziano, a famous humanist poet who wanted to link his name itself to Montepulciano. 

Some interesting places to visit are the “Wine Museum”, Fontegrande, the Roman Spas and, at the end of August, the characteristic historical parade of BRAVIO DELLE BOTTI: during this contest the barrels, each weighing 80 Kg, are rolled uphill by 8 contradas’ pushers; the winner is the first who reaches the Cathedral Churchyard up in Piazza Grande. 

Everybody is wearing historical clothes and the spectacular perfomances made by flag-wavers work together for getting the scene more picturesque. As well as in many other important areas by the point of view of the wine production diffused almost throughout the whole Italian territory, in the production area of D.O.C. and D.O.C.G. “Montepulciano” we can find a more structured wine, a so called “niche product”, the “Nobile of Montepulciano “ and another wine, more accessible by every point of view, the “Rosso”. 

Thus you can witness the presence of a binomy made of the wine “Prince” and its “Cadet”. The grape mother of the Nobile is Prugnolo Gentile, a nobler chlone of the large Sangiovese, a local species of vine that offers a honourable final product. In the mix of grapes for making “Nobile” wine Prugnolo Gentile goes along with the Canaiolo, Trebbiano, Malvasia and Mammolo in higher rate. 

The established ageing period (according to the Disciplinary) is 2 years in durmast barrels and three for the “riserva” (“vintage”) series. It is a rubin or garnet red wine, with intense smells of wild fruits, spicy and elegant, with a balanced taste, harmonic and roundish; the specific data follow beneath: 

 Grape 

- Prugnolo gentile 50-60 % 

- Black Canaiolo 10-20 %

- Chianti Malvasia and Tuscan Trebbiano 10-20%, 

- other local wines as Pulcinculo, Grechetto and Mammolo up to a maximum rate of 8 %

Colour 

Garnet Red tending to brown while ageing.

Smell 

Delicate and intense scent of “Viola Odorata” (a species of violet flower)

Taste

Dry, austhere, lightly tannic but warm and velvety.

Alcohol 

12,5-13 % vol.

Total Acidity 

5,5-7 ‰

Production area

Communes of Montepulciano and Torrita di Siena In 1966 it obtained the D.O.C. acknowledgment and in 1985 the D.O.C.G. one.