While wine is made in seemingly every corner of Italy, a single region seems to be more famous than all the rest: Tuscany. You'll find it on the country's western coast, just north of Rome, with ...
While other Tuscan winemakers trying to make a splash veer toward international varieties and IGT classifications, Giovanni Mazzei wanted to remain true to Chianti Classico. With 600 years of family ...
Finding good, inexpensive Italian red wines can be a challenge. Many great ones easily cost more than a hundred dollars a bottle. And even when you do find more affordable ones, making sense of ...
Italy's San Donato in Poggio has been approved as a Chianti Classico Gran Selezione growing area. (Matteo Mescalchin/Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico) Perspective by Dave McIntyre This is not your ...
There's a battle going on in Tuscany. A wine battle. World famous as the home of Chianti, the crisp, red pizza wine that can sometimes soar to heights of complexity, the Italian region today is ...
If there is one Italian wine people know, it’s Chianti (pronounced "key-on-tee"). This lovely, medium-bodied wine is omnipresent in Italian-themed restaurants, supermarkets and wine shops. But ...
In the cellars of Il Palagio di Panzano wine estate, 20 miles south of Florence, Monia Piccini is clambering energetically up ladders and on top of the wine tanks, swishing and swilling the vino with ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the world’s best hotels, restaurants and wine. Chianti Classico, which is an appellation under Italian wine laws, is a ...
The 685-acre estate is spread out across a group of centuries-old stone buildings, with a Michelin-starred restaurant, a ...