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WINE 101 with Kate Hawkings

TUSCAN WINE

Tuscany is perhaps the most beautiful region in Italy. Occupied by the Etruscans (from whom it gets its name – Toscana in Italian) who brought wine here in pre-Roman times, Tuscany was at the centre of the Renaissance. Its dreamy appearance seems to have changed little since, with rolling hills, medieval villages, olive groves, majestic stands of cypress trees and swathes of vineyards everywhere you turn.

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