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 ...

Reporting from Florence, Italy — At a London symposium one chilly night, there was talk of Italian wine and palm trees, warming our winter-weary souls. Then I was handed a glass of pale rosé by an ...

Vignamaggio’s modern vision of Chianti Classico encompasses world-class wine, a polycultural wine estate, and luxury retreat ...

Reporting from Florence, Italy — There’s no bad way to see Italy. I’ve done parts of the country by train, by rental car and on foot, on multiple trips from Florence, Padua and Rome, and it’s never ...

A revolution is underway in these Tuscan hills which stretch between Florence and Siena. In the growing region of Chianti, wine producers are struggling to define a style for chianti classico, a red ...

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 ...

Chianti Classico, a renowned red wine originating from the picturesque Chianti region in Tuscany, Italy, holds a distinguished status in the world of oenophiles. The legacy of Chianti Classico started ...

No one has not heard of Chianti, Italy’s most famed red wine. It’s the wine in the straw-webbed flask at Tony’s Trattoria in “Lady and the Tramp.” It’s Hannibal Lecter’s taken tipple with fava beans ...

is a well-known Tuscan winery, and its newest Chianti Classico wines, brought only recently to the American market, offers quality and value. While acclaimed for their Brunello di Montalcino and Super ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about wine and spirits. A few years ago I was talking to the sommelier of a high-end Italian restaurant in New York, and ...