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At the southern end of the Chianti Classico district are the vineyards of Barone Ricasoli. Now managed by the steady hand of Francesco Ricasoli, these ancient vineyards and the family that has managed ...

These longer-aged wines were once notable for being too oaky and powerful. Now, producers are letting the gorgeous purity of the sangiovese grape shine through. By Eric Asimov I could not have ...

From weeknight to cellar, Chianti Classico overdelivers right now. Chianti Classico — a region, not a quality designation, lodged between Florence and Sienna in the heart of Tuscany — is Italy’s most ...

Visit the wine shelves of any California supermarket and you will find sitting there, untidy among all the fancy Italian wine bottles, a straw- covered bottle of Chianti. These quaint bottles, called ...

What is Chianti? An inexpensive red wine in a straw-covered bottle, sort of sharp, sort of thin, and not very interesting? Or is it one of the historic wines of Italy, which is now seeing a ...

If you had to pick a wine to represent the entire country of Italy, a single wine out of hundreds of bottlings drawn from thousands of indigenous varieties, that wine would have to be Chianti. Of all ...

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What is a chianti? This emblematic wine is made all over the Tuscan countryside, but the historic heart lies in a region between Florence and Siena. In 1716, Cosimo de' Medici III, Grand Duke of ...