Tasting Highlights: Vin Santo

A Tuscan child of nature
Jo Cooke
Posted: September 12, 2005

When it comes to Vin Santo, Tuscany's historic sweet wine, it's important to make the distinction between the bland, often oxidized, vaguely spicy-sweet commercial versions that fill most retail shelves and the "real" Vin Santos, such as the nine listed below, which were the best performers in recent blind tastings in Tuscany.

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