In one of the world’s oldest, and most revered, winemaking regions it is hard to reinvent the wheel, however the forward-thinking wine producers in Chianti Classico are trying to do so. For years they ...

A 1970s monument to modern architecture is sailing through the test of time in the picturesque hills of Italy’s Chianti region. The long, two-story villa, with strong horizontal lines and a flat roof, ...

Take SR 222, the Chianti Road south. We stayed in Castellina once and enjoyed that. There is a wine coop there and plenty of wineries in the area. You might want to visit Baron Ricasoli for a tour and ...

We're looking for a farm that has a vineyard, relatively centrally located in the Chianti region (so that you can make easy day trips to the towns in Tuscany), amazing views, good food, and great ...

Italian wines can be confusing. There are subregions within subregions of larger regions that sometimes seem like a square block in a neighborhood where a few guys happen to make the same style wine.

When Francesco Ricasoli, a winemaker and the patriarch of one of the oldest noble families in Chianti, the fertile countryside between Florence and Siena, was growing up, it was exceedingly rare to ...

The epicentre of the strongest quake was nine kilometres below ground close to Greve in Chianti. Photo: Konrad Lawson Several mini-earthquakes with a maximum magnitude of 4.1 shook Italy's famous ...

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THE Chianti region in the hills of Tuscany is the spiritual home of the sangiovese grape. With its black cherry and violet aromas, its earthy mineral flavors, its lively acidity and its sometimes ...