Tuscany on Sommo — AI Wine Scanner, WSET Prep & Wine Journal Apphttps://sommo.app/tags/tuscany/Recent content in Tuscany on Sommo — AI Wine Scanner, WSET Prep & Wine Journal AppHugoen-USSommoThu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Super Tuscans: The Outlaw Wines That Beat the Systemhttps://sommo.app/blog/super-tuscan-wines/Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://sommo.app/blog/super-tuscan-wines/<p>The best-named category in wine was born out of an insult. In the 1970s a handful of Tuscan estates decided the official rules were holding their wines back, broke them on purpose, and were punished with the lowest classification Italian law allowed: <em>vino da tavola</em>, table wine. Those table wines went on to outscore and outprice almost everything made by the rules. The world called them <strong>Super Tuscans</strong>, and their story explains more about how wine law works than any textbook.</p>